Horror Quotes - Page 7

• As a kid, I liked the 'Halloween' movies and 'Nightmare On Elm Street' and all that kind of stuff. But as an adult, I really don't watch much horror, to be honest.

  Corey Feldman

  Halloween, Kids, Stuff

  "Corey Feldman on child actors, his favorite roles, and the Goonies sequel". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. December 10, 2012.

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• Woodstock happened in August 1969, long before the Internet and mobile phones made it possible to communicate instantly with anyone, anywhere. It was a time when we werent able to witness world events or the horrors of war live on 24-hour news channels.

  Richie Havens

  War, Phones, August

  "Commentary: Woodstock, world's biggest family reunion" by Richie Havens, www.cnn.com. August 12, 2009.

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• Screaming. Did I mention the screaming? Screaming is usually associated with horror films and roller coasters. This is why I usually look like I've just watched a horror film on a rollercoaster. Kids love to scream. Frightened, happy, bored. They scream. I've actually learned to love the sound of a vacuum cleaner. It's just so peaceful.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Kids, Bored, Peaceful

  Jim Gaffigan (2013). “Dad Is Fat”, p.109, Crown Archetype

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• I'm quite a rational person. I'm not very superstitious, but I really do enjoy horror as a genre.

  Gemma Chan

  Genre, Enjoy, Rational

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• Horror movies scare me. I don't really watch them. I'm not a big horror genre fan. I like certain classic horror - like 'Alien', 'Jaws', 'The Exorcist', stuff like that.

  Katharine Isabelle

  Horror Genre, Scare, Fans

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• I'm a big fan of horror, personally.

  Annie Parisse

  Fans, Bigs

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• I think my mom is the inspiration of me wanting to do film and TV and be an actor because she loved film so much. She loved, like, horror films and action films, so growing up, she loved watching all the Charles Bronson films and all the westerns.

  Rick Gonzalez

  Mom, Growing Up, Inspiration

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• In nothing was slavery so savage and relentless as in its attempted destruction of the family instincts of the Negro race in America. Individuals, not families; shelters, not homes; herding, not marriages, were the cardinal sins in that system of horrors.

  Fannie Barrier Williams

  Family, Home, Race

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• I do not think that the nerve of the modern child is any too good; how can one expect it, brought up as they are amongst all the horrors of civilization. The 'daring' child who used to be common enough, is seldom met nowadays.

  Muriel Wace

  Children, Thinking, Civilization

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• I am actually a big sissy, and growing up, I never used to watch horror movies. Bambi gave me nightmares.

  Danielle Panabaker

  Growing Up, Watches, Nightmare

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• Wes Craven is obviously a horror film icon so I was definitely very interested in bringing something back to life that Wes had created.

  Aaron Stanford

  Icons, Film, Horror Film

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• Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes ones fear, but the human being who has contact with it.

  Andrew Pyper

  Contact, Provoking, Humans

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• Slashing its way to the finish line, Black Swan is the first ballet movie for highbrow horror fans for whom ballet itself signifies little to nothing. Those of us who know and love ballet can only look on it with a different kind of horror.

  James Wolcott

  Swans, Ballet, Black

  "Swan Down: James Wolcott's Review". "Opera Chic" blog, December 06, 2010.

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• Growing up devouring horror comics and novels, and being inspired to become a writer because of horror novels, movies, and comic books, I always knew I was going to write a horror novel.

  Colson Whitehead

  Growing Up, Book, Writing

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• Characters on stage should be flat, like clothes in a fashion show: what you get should be no more than what you see. Psychological realism is repulsive, because it allows us to escape unpalatable reality by taking shelter in the “luxuriousness” of personality, losing ourselves in the depth of individual character. The writer's task is to block this manoeuvre, to chase us off to a point from which we can view the horror with a dispassionate eye.

  Elfriede Jelinek

  Fashion, Block, Character

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• People would always say horror movies always thrive during times of war; that's just what people would say. And I don't know if they thrived during World War II or Vietnam, but I thought that's kind of strange, why would that happen. I don't know if people rearrange their priorities; in good times, they freak out and start pointing the fingers at video games and TV, but when horrible things are happening in the world, a horror movie just seems a little ridiculous.

  Rob Zombie

  War, Games, People

  "Rob Zombie Goes Six Feet Under with The Devil's Rejects". Interview with Movieweb, movieweb.com. July 20, 2005.

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• I never would have guessed I would be making science fiction and horror films.

  Matt Reeves

  Would Be, Fiction, Film

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

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• I tended to be drawn to the weirder, darker stuff. Horror and sci-fi anthologies.

  Karen Russell

  Stuff, Sci Fi, Anthology

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• In the far reaches of the world, under a lost and lonely hill, lies the TOMB OF HORRORS. This labyrinthine crypt is filled with terrible traps, strange and ferocious monsters, rich and magical treasures, and somewhere within rests the evil DemiLich.

  Ernest Cline

  Lonely, Lying, Evil

  Ernest Cline (2011). “Ready Player One”, p.74, Random House

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• I think if you looked at the kind of ebb and flow of supernatural fiction and horror fiction, it does seem to be more popular in times when were hammered over the head daily with threats from all angles, very real threats.

  Michael Koryta

  Real, Thinking, Ebb And Flow

  "Sanctuary Of Suspense: A Lighthouse On 'The Ridge'". "Weekend Edition" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. July 10, 2011.

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• Whether it's Mrs Dalloway's lost love or Thérèse Raquin's burgeoning horror, The Paying Guests reminds us of every great novel we've gasped or winced at, or loudly urged the protagonists through, and it does not relent. . . . The Paying Guests is the apotheosis of [Waters'] talent; at least for now. I have tried and failed to find a single negative thing to say about it. Her next will probably be even better. Until then, read it, Flaubert, Zola, and weep.

  Charlotte Mendelson

  Lost Love, Water, Next

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• Missing someone has to be one of the worst human emotions. All the other feelings like anger and fear and horror get some much more airplay, as if their intensity gives them more value, but whereas those emotions come in violent bursts and are gone again, the gnawing ache of loss has to be simply endured. It's like background noise, it's always there, it never goes away. You just have to try to block it out, distract yourself, hope that tomorrow the hole they left behind has grown a little smaller.

  Alexandra Potter

  Missing Someone, Block, Loss

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• For the best part of my childhood I visited the local library three or four times a week, hunching in the stacks on a foam rubber stool and devouring children's fiction, classics, salacious thrillers, horror and sci-fi, books about cinema and origami and natural history, to the point where my parents encouraged me to read a little less.

  David Nicholls

  Children, Book, Parent

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• I don't love horror movies with something surreal happening. That doesn't work for me. What's terrifying is something that could actually happen to me and what I would do. I don't know how to throw a punch, and I've never had to do it.

  Katie Aselton

  Surreal, Happenings, Know How

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars. Yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between Governments. The once powerful malignant Nazi state is crumbling; the Japanese warlords are receiving in their homelands the retribution for which they asked when they attacked Pearl Harbor. But the mere conquest of our enemies is not enough; we must go on to do all in our power to conquer the doubts and the fears, the ignorance and the greed, which made this horror possible.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Peace, Powerful, War

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