Horror Quotes - Page 40

• It's just assumed that a horror sequel is going to be bad. It's never going to be as good as the first one.

  Eli Roth

  Firsts, Sequels

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• People want to be disturbed when they go see a horror movie.

  Eli Roth

  People, Want, Disturbed

  "Eli Roth (Part Two)". Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. April 26, 2006.

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• The best movies now are called 'thrillers.' Because if you use the word 'horror,' people's associations are straight-to-video crap.

  Eli Roth

  People, Video, Use

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• 'Cabin Fever' was very much inspired by 'The Thing.' It's really a perfect guy's horror movie: There's no love story, it's just straight-up horror. And it's so well-done. It moves at a slow pace, but it's really terrific.

  Eli Roth

  Moving, Perfect Guy, Cabins

  "24 Hours Of Horror With Eli Roth". Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. October 24, 2007.

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• I think that horror films have a very direct relationship to the time in which they're made. The films that really strike a film with the public are very often reflecting something that everyone, consciously or unconsciously feeling - atomic age, post 9-11, post Iraq war; it's hard to predict what people are going to be afraid of.

  Eli Roth

  War, Thinking, Iraq

  "Eli Roth answers your questions" by Adam Boult, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2013.

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• I ain't gonna get this, it's a horror movie, it's hard to act scared.

  Kelly Rowland

  Scared, Hard

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• You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranquility with which to respond to these things, because I realize that the biggest risk that many of us run is beginning to get inured to the horrors.

  Arundhati Roy

  Running, Risk, Quiet

  "Arundhati Roy On the Indian Elections, Her Support for the Iraqi Resistance & the Privatization of War". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. May 19, 2004.

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• I was always a fan of horror films as a kid.

  Jeri Ryan

  Kids, Fans, Film

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• I love horror. I love 'The Shining,' 'Friday the 13th,' 'Halloween,' all those kinds of things. I love zombies, especially '28 Days Later' and '28 Weeks Later,' where the zombies are going faster than the George Romero ones. I love being scared; there's something that's awesome about your heart rate going up like that.

  Ricky Schroder

  Friday, Halloween, Heart

  "Q&A – Rick Schroder (Blood Done Sign My Name) Loves Sci-Fi Movies and Fast Zombies". AMC Interview, www.amc.com.

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• I'm looking at some comedic horror films because I have often been accused of being too dark. I'm not dark, not compared with 'Saw' or anything like that. So I'm looking at live-action horror films, but not slasher ones - ones that have humor and maybe some social satire.

  Henry Selick

  Dark, Saws, Action

  "Siggraph: Henry Selick Wants to Make Comedic, Live-Action Horror Films" by Carolyn Giardina, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 22, 2013.

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• I'm a huge fan of science fiction and fantasy - not so much horror because I get a bit scared.

  Michael Sheen

  Fans, Fiction, Scared

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 'American Horror' is the debasement of the suburban family, the way a lonely kid would have imagined it in the Seventies.

  Rob Sheffield

  Lonely, Kids, Way

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• 'American Horror' goes for a very specific kind of Seventies suburban downer ambience - 'Flowers in the Attic' paperbacks, Black Sabbath album covers and late-night flicks like 'Let's Scare Jessica to Death.' It even has 'Go Ask Alice'-era urban legends.

  Rob Sheffield

  Flower, Night, Urban Legends

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• When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Art, Kids, Two

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• Being alone is scarier than any boogey man and the reason why I don't choose to see Horror movies as a rule.

  Tom Sizemore

  Movie, Men, Actors

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• What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?

  Sydney Smith

  Life, Math, Culture

  Lady Saba Holland Holland, Sydney Smith, Sarah Austin (1855). “A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith”, p.345

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• I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them.

  Zadie Smith

  Writing, Thinking, Opposites

  "Geek gek, n (slang ) A misfit, a rebel, sometimes a troublemaker. 'While some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius' (Apple Computer advertising campaign, 1997) Top 50 Geeks 1-25 (Part 1 of 2)". www.heraldscotland.com. July 16, 2005.

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• I was a scared kid... I think I was born a nervous wreck, and I think movies were one way to find a way transferring my own private horrors to everyone else's lives. It was less of an escape and more of an exorcism.

  Steven Spielberg

  Kids, Thinking, Wrecks

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• Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Mean, Gun, People

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• People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.

  Stendhal

  Reading, People, Suffering

  Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black”, p.192, Tyché

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• The latest horror to hit the U.S. looks to have been caused by people of Middle Eastern origin, bearing Muslim names. Again, shame. This fuels more hatred for a religion and a people who have nothing to do with these events.

  Cat Stevens

  Names, People, Hatred

  "Faith and the future" by Yusuf Islam, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2001.

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• Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain.

  Bram Stoker

  Thinking, Mad, Long

  Bram Stoker (1904). “Dracula”, p.330, Hayes Barton Press

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• I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.

  Oliver Stone

  Movie, Way, Scared

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• Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain.

  William Styron

  Depression, Pain, Suffering

  William Clark Styron (2010). “Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness”, p.26, Open Road Media

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• I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Good Morning, Night, Marathon

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