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Horror Quotes
"I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty."
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"The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation."
"The ugly is very appealing to man. It's instinct. One shrinks from the ugly, yet wants to look at it. There's a devilish fascination in it. We extract pleasure from horror."
"This indication of audience interest is good for all horror movie makers at any budget level."
"I really believe that you could do horror very inexpensively. I don't think it has anything to do with the effects, the effects are not the most important parts."
"What scares me is what scares you. We're all afraid of the same things. That's why horror is such a powerful genre. All you have to do is ask yourself what frightens you and you'll know what frightens me."
"The modern horror audience is wise to our tricks this lets it in on the gag."
"I think that true horror is accomplished by slowly getting into your brain. The old way is much more scary."
"I'm quiet, and I don't enjoy watching horror flicks, so am I like Zeke? No way."
"Well, don't tell Steve Niles but I just don't think horror works in comics."
"Even the contemporary horror authors who have seriously influenced me are a disparate bunch."
"I had to get used to wearing a mask and wearing a prosthetic and performing with those things while singing and expressing myself through stylized movement, while keeping it as human as possible so the audience could be closer to the horror of the Phantom."
"I have a horror of not rising above mediocrity."
"I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning."
"The Dead was cool, It's a great horror story. I went to the casting director of this movie and talked to him, then they called my agent and had me come in and read for it and they wanted to use me."
"As much horror as we have always created, we are a species that keeps moving forward, seeing new sights in new ways, and enjoying the journey."
"You hear a lot of horror stories about proposing and things going horribly wrong - it went really, really well and I was really pleased when she said yes."
"If you were the only suspect in a senseless bloodbath, would you be standing the the horror section?"
"A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror."
"I must be informed, that one of my great duties was, to obey the priests in all things; and this I soon learnt, to my utter astonishment and horror, was to live in the practice of criminal intercourse with them."
"All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain."
"Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror."
"So, I outlined a horror novel and started writing."
"All of us have our individual curses, something that we are uncomfortable with and something that we have to deal with, like me making horror films, perhaps."
"Many of my short stories (all unpublished) were horror, and the novel I'd just finished was horror, too."
"The horror genre is important because it promotes experimentation in filmmaking."
"I've been reading horror since I was five years old."
"Any horror element is as much psychological as special effects."
"I remember seeing some little wrinkles in my early 30s and thinking they were interesting. But you know the horror of it is that the screen image has to be perfect."
"Trying to break into the horror market seemed natural."
"I throw it all in there, Kung Fu, blaxploitation, horror."
"Stephen King writes a lot of things that are really charming and quirky, and that are more ironic than horror."
"I have never read horror, nor do I consider The Exorcist to be such, but rather as a suspenseful supernatural detective story, or paranormal police procedural."
"I am determined to go through the horror of this world."
"There are a couple of things in there if we're constraining this discussion to horror here."
"The horror of it is, every goddamn thing you look at seems pretty scary to me."
"I tell you, I feel like a real novice as far as horror goes."
"If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel that doesn't match up."
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