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I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.
Author:
Sarah Zettel
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Any peace process after so many years of horror and terror will be long and difficult.
Author:
Jose Zapatero
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So I was asked to do horror film after horror film, a series of about five, after that, and some of those were a little too gruesome. I wasn't too comfortable all the time in those. I didn't really care for them.
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Fay Wray
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When we were making KONG, I went into the sound room and made an aria of horror sounds. I was in charge of it; there was no one there to listen to me. I was totally in charge of what I wanted to do.
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Fay Wray
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When you hear in the tape recordings Nixon's own voice saying, We have to stonewall, We have to lie to the Grand Jury, We have to pay burglars a million dollars, it's all too clear the horror of what went on.
Author:
Bob Woodward
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The thing is there have been American movies that are similar to Solaris, like Alien had a lot of things that are similar, although it's also got the horror element.
Author:
Alex Winter
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Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.
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Robert Wilson
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Typically in horror films the character just services the plot, and you really are just going from 'point a' to 'point b,' just so that you can end up at 'point c.' They are just sort of stick characters. That's just not interesting to me.
Author:
Kevin Williamson
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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.
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Prince William
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I throw it all in there, Kung Fu, blaxploitation, horror.
Author:
Keenen Wayans
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I'm a fan of good horror movies.
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Donnie Wahlberg
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I think that The Eye is a particularly Americanized take on horror.
Author:
Guillermo Toro
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I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with the rest of cinema.
Author:
Guillermo Toro
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Horror movies can be very interesting because they can deal with intangible subjects that are full of emotion.
Author:
Meg Tilly
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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.
Author:
Quentin Tarantino
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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.
Author:
William Styron
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I love watching a good, freaky horror movie. I love it. It's one of my favorite things to do, to go and see at the cinema. Just to tune out and be freaked out.
Author:
Yvonne Strahovski
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I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.
Author:
Oliver Stone
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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.
Author:
Cat Stevens
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On the other hand, now that I'm not dependent on fiction for my income, I've been writing more short stories despite the fact that there's no real paying market for short horror other than Cemetery Dance.
Author:
George Stephen
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I'm a fan of short horror fiction... in fact, the most memorable horror I've read is of the short variety... but I have a hard time pulling it off myself.
Author:
George Stephen
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I've been reading horror since I was five years old.
Author:
George Stephen
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Many of my short stories (all unpublished) were horror, and the novel I'd just finished was horror, too.
Author:
George Stephen
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So, I outlined a horror novel and started writing.
Author:
George Stephen
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Trying to break into the horror market seemed natural.
Author:
George Stephen
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Even the contemporary horror authors who have seriously influenced me are a disparate bunch.
Author:
George Stephen
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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.
Author:
Stendhal
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A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror.
Author:
Wilhelm Steinitz
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Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.
Author:
Dodie Smith
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When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.
Author:
Lewis Smedes
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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.
Author:
Tom Sizemore
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We're in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, and I would hope that I could participate in some way in stopping the horror and the brutality.
Author:
Wallace Shawn
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An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
Author:
George Shaw
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I don't have any illusion that The Creeper is as popular or will ever be as popular as any of the classic movie monsters, but I think in the heart of every young horror fan is his desire to create his own creature.
Author:
Victor Salva
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I was always a fan of horror films as a kid.
Author:
Jeri Ryan
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I looked back at some of my earlier published stories with genuine horror and remorse. I got thinking, How many extant copies might there be, who owns them, and do they keep their doors locked?
Author:
Richard Russo
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This is an area you always need to address when you're dealing with Dracula is the fact that there is something kind of attractive in his darkness - which there isn't in other horror characters.
Author:
Richard Roxburgh
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I think that the episodes are like mini horror films really; the characters make bad decisions early on and these things just snowball for them and get worse and worse. And that's what I find funny.
Author:
Dave Rowntree
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I ain't gonna get this, it's a horror movie, it's hard to act scared.
Author:
Kelly Rowland
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At the present moment, with little or no detail to hand, it is difficult for me to make any comment, beyond the expression of horror at the shameless haste with which the government appears to be pressing for our liquidation.
Author:
Ethel Rosenberg
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With all the horror in the world and all the crap that's going on, for an hour and a half you go eat some popcorn and laugh with your friends. That's what a movie is all about.
Author:
Michael Rosenbaum
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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
Author:
Eleanor Roosevelt
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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.
Author:
George Romero
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If one horror film hits, everyone says, 'Let's go make a horror film.' It's the genre that never dies.
Author:
George Romero
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I love horror and sci-fi.
Author:
Ivan Reitman
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Then my first film was something called Cannibal Girls, which sounds like a horror movie but was actually kind of a goofy comedy with horror elements. Like a horror spoof.
Author:
Ivan Reitman
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As far as film goes, I enjoy all Hollywood films and all Horror films like The Bride of Frankenstein, which also might be my favorite. I like 60's and 70's Italian and Spanish Horror films.
Author:
Johnny Ramone
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
Author:
Edgar Poe
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At this point in my career, it doesn't bother me much that I'm probably hopelessly typecast. I like to work, and horror films definitely keep me working.
Author:
Donald Pleasence
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It's gotten to the point where it's big news when I don't do a horror film.
Author:
Donald Pleasence
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Why do otherwise sane, competent, strong men, men who can wrestle bears or raid corporations, shrink away in horror at the thought of washing a dish or changing a diaper?
Author:
Frank Pittman
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I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!
Author:
Pablo Picasso
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All these horror movies are slasher film now. I like them, they're fun, but they wink at the audience and you're really not terrified through the movie.
Author:
Gina Philips
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I'm a horror movie fanatic.
Author:
Gina Philips
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Number one is that it just scares people! Your hair is standing up on your arms, or at least that there's a few moments when you're jumping. That's what makes it a good horror movie.
Author:
Gina Philips
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I think there is a feeling of old Hitchcock in there. There are parts that are tributes to some of the old great horror movies and the old great filmmakers.
Author:
Gina Philips
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Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood... there are many things more horrible than bloodshed, and slavery is one of them!
Author:
Padraic Pearse
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I think The Exorcist is the best American horror movie ever made. Friedkin was at the top of his game.
Author:
Jason Patric
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We're gonna try and bring on all the different aspects of horror movie making and bring on guests and show all these old '50's B movies. Not the real corny ones, the real cool ones.
Author:
Jerry Only
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The amount of horror one used to hear about in one village could be quite extreme. But one might not have heard about all the other villages' horrors at the same time.
Author:
Sharon Olds
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Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.
Author:
Conor O'Brien
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The horror of it is, every goddamn thing you look at seems pretty scary to me.
Author:
Kary Mullis
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Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.
Author:
Wolfgang Mozart
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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.
Author:
Maria Monk
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De Niro was a hero of mine. And Sean Penn. But I've realized I can't operate at that level of intensity. That's okay for movies. On TV, when you live with horror day in and day out, you have to protect yourself.
Author:
Christopher Meloni
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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.
Author:
Matthew McGrory
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The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.
Author:
Norman Mailer
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Stephen King writes a lot of things that are really charming and quirky, and that are more ironic than horror.
Author:
William Macy
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It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing.
Author:
Bela Lugosi
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It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more.
Author:
Bela Lugosi
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You can't make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
Author:
Bela Lugosi
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Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.
Author:
H. Lovecraft
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I'll probably pursue doing more movies, but not horror or movies with killers in them. I'll try to stick to happy movies. I want to act and direct like Jodie Foster. I admire her because she went to college and she's still doing the same thing.
Author:
Lindsay Lohan
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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.
Author:
Sonya Levien
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When I need the idea, I can find it immediately. I have a horror of rewriting or deleting; the parts of my composition are carried in my head 'till I can write them down, even to the last note. Then I do not alter a jot.
Author:
Ruggero Leoncavallo
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In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies like The Shining. You had a connection to the characters in that film.
Author:
Joshua Leonard
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I think there are many times when it would be most efficient to use nuclear weapons. However, the public opinion in this country and throughout the world throw up their hands in horror when you mention nuclear weapons, just because of the propaganda that's been fed to them.
Author:
Curtis Lemay
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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
Author:
David Lawrence
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There is an element of anger among women who've been raped. There's certainly a major element of humiliation. But it really does seem like a medical condition of shock and horror.
Author:
Nicholas Kristof
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Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror.
Author:
Dean Koontz
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Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.
Author:
Henry Knox
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For the last 30 years our cinemas have been ruled by science fiction and horror. We've had some very good Fantasy films in that time period, but for my tastes I still haven't seen fantasy done to absolute perfection. That is the hope I have in this project.
Author:
Harry Knowles
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Well, don't tell Steve Niles but I just don't think horror works in comics.
Author:
Robert Kirkman
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I like the fact that major studios have been attempting horror films recently.
Author:
Richard King
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I have done some short pieces that are not horror.
Author:
Richard King
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This indication of audience interest is good for all horror movie makers at any budget level.
Author:
Richard King
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The horror genre is important because it promotes experimentation in filmmaking.
Author:
Richard King
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I love horror movies because they're really fun. They tap into those wonderful primal emotions.
Author:
Margot Kidder
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I don't buy into any of that hogwash. They put that out to sell tickets. It's just a classic horror movie, with the Greek drama formula of good versus evil, and lots of fear.
Author:
Margot Kidder
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There are certain rules one must abide by in order to succesfully survive a horror movie.
Author:
Jamie Kennedy
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If you were the only suspect in a senseless bloodbath, would you be standing the the horror section?
Author:
Jamie Kennedy
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I think what sets this one apart is that there are two horror movie icons finally battling each other. You actually see them beat the crap out of each other instead of just terrorizing the kids in the movie.
Author:
Monica Keena
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I tell you, I feel like a real novice as far as horror goes.
Author:
Lawrence Kasdan
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I loved Alien, and I loved Carrie, and I loved The Exorcist - those were big movies for me. They were just brilliantly done, and unusual, and they all took horror to some new place.
Author:
Lawrence Kasdan
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Why should a horror film be just a horror film? To me, The Company of Wolves is a fairy tale; it's got all those elements plus a lot more. And we know that fairy tales aren't innocent any more.
Author:
Neil Jordan
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The Company of Wolves doesn't belong in any category, so it's difficult to prepare an audience for it. It's not a horror film, it's not a fantasy film, it's not a children's film - so what is it?
Author:
Neil Jordan
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At the time I came along, Hollywood's idea of teen movies meant there had to be a lot of nudity, usually involving boys in pursuit of sex, and pretty gross overall. Either that or a horror movie. And the last thing Hollywood wanted in their teen movies was teenagers!
Author:
John Hughes
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Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like 'The Grudge', I look in the corners of my room for the next two days.
Author:
Vanessa Hudgens
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I remember a moment when the Prince went back to his old school, Grammar School in Melbourne, and slightly to his horror his old music teacher produced a cello.
Author:
Anthony Holden
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I mean Buckingham Palace has never hired a professional public relations outfit let alone a Madison Avenue type and they would throw up their hands in horror at the very idea.
Author:
Anthony Holden
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All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.
Author:
Thomas Hobbes
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I'd never watch a horror film, but after I found out I was going to be in one, I watched, like, four of them, including The Shining, I was terrified - I couldn't sleep for days. But I wanted to get myself used to things I was going to see on the set.
Author:
Jennifer Hewitt
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I began as a model, but that did not really hold my interest for too long! I believe I stood out from the parade of models trying to make it in Hollywood, which helped launch my career beyond the one-night-stand horror movie.
Author:
Natasha Henstridge
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When I do a horror or a fantasy film it all boils down to something in the script that surprises me. It could be a big thing or a small moment. If it's there I'll do it.
Author:
Lance Henriksen
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Most horror films fail to scare me. I think "The Ring" plays more as a psychological thriller. It's smarter, there's more character development and some of the themes explored go a little deeper.
Author:
Martin Henderson
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Through my mind, is just the horror of these people. I had been held by them, I knew how violent they were.
Author:
Patty Hearst
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It's not scary to make a horror film because you get to pull back the curtain and see that none of it's real. When you're watching one, the terror bombards you.
Author:
Josh Hartnett
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I'm quiet, and I don't enjoy watching horror flicks, so am I like Zeke? No way.
Author:
Josh Hartnett
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I started off like everyone else does, slogging but having a compulsion to put words on paper. I didn't write or read horror or fantasy, other than children's fantasy, until I was in my teens.
Author:
Laurell Hamilton
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I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people's fiction. Just don't.
Author:
Laurell Hamilton
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Readers respond to every genre intensely, if it's a genre that appeals to them. Again, who can say why anyone enjoys horror and dark fantasy? If I can't answer the question for myself, I wouldn't dream of trying to answer it for others.
Author:
Laurell Hamilton
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There were also horror shows on the radio. Very terrifying and thrilling to me as a kid. They had all these creepy sound effects. They would come on at ten o'clock at night, and I just would scare myself to death.
Author:
Jessica Hagedorn
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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.
Author:
Mark Haddon
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War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.
Author:
David Hackworth
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The specific story line that people have responded to the most has been the horror of bathing suit shopping.
Author:
Cathy Guisewite
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I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and I knew that many great and wise people felt the same way about it.
Author:
George Grosz
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I went see the horror thriller, Hannibal. I am a massive fan of Anthony Hopkins. He is superb in the film.
Author:
David Ginola
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Few of us will forget the wail of mingled grief, rage and horror which rose from the camp when the Indians returned to it and recognized their slaughtered warriors, women, and children.
Author:
John Gibbon
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After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith; they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat.
Author:
Martha Gellhorn
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I've always been fascinated by Asian culture, and I love that women can play the lead in a horror film.
Author:
Sarah Gellar
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Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.
Author:
Carlos Fuentes
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I'm constantly watching people. Watching their strengths and weaknesses. I find myself going into theater less and less, let alone horror. I gave that up when I was seven or eight years old.
Author:
Jonathan Frid
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To me, horror is when I see somebody lying. I mean a person I know. A friend. And he's telling me something that I accept. And then suddenly, as he or she is telling it, there's something that gives them away. They're not telling me the truth.
Author:
Jonathan Frid
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I am determined to go through the horror of this world.
Author:
Brian Epstein
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I would like to see the technology used to explore more period horror genre works, for example, E. A. Poe.
Author:
Robert Englund
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Many great horror stories are period pieces and English actors have a facility for historic characters.
Author:
Robert Englund
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I'm basically a movie actor now, and my big roles are mostly horror movies - unless I'm doing a guest star or something - and occasionally I try to get back into television.
Author:
Robert Englund
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The modern horror audience is wise to our tricks this lets it in on the gag.
Author:
Robert Englund
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My imagination completely controls me, and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me the best dreams. I've always had a wild imagination, a big heart and a tortured soul so I feel that dark fantasy, love and horror are in my blood.
Author:
Kim Elizabeth
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I've always found it easy and natural and, more importantly, necessary to articulate thoughts and feelings, and fierce emotions, through the written word. Fantasy and horror came to me when I was very young.
Author:
Kim Elizabeth
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There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.
Author:
Umberto Eco
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Any horror element is as much psychological as special effects.
Author:
Christopher Eccleston
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I like horror movies, they're fun. It was the most fun I've had on a movie set.
Author:
Clea Duvall
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Where there is no imagination there is no horror.
Author:
Arthur Doyle
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I always wanted to get into the horror genre. I like scary movies. I want to go to the fan shows and sign posters with my head hanging by a thread like a B-movie actress.
Author:
Illeana Douglas
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I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.
Author:
Isak Dinesen
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Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.
Author:
Robert Delaunay
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The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world.
Author:
Morris Dees
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When a benevolent mind contemplates the republic of Lycurgus, its admiration is mixed with a degree of horror.
Author:
Thomas Day
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The reason bin Laden staggered the planes going into the towers was so every camera would be focused on the second tower when the plane hit. It was not only the murder, but the perpetual image of the horror that permeated into people's consciousness.
Author:
John Cusack
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One of the best things that ever happened to me was Rocky Horror being a total flop in New York as a play. I mean, it was a disaster, and it was the night of the long knives as far as the critics were concerned.
Author:
Tim Curry
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Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty.
Author:
Aleister Crowley
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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.
Author:
Wes Craven
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I had a tremendous horror of going into the Army. That is probably why I went to college for so long.
Author:
Bruce Conner
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And I think that I'd be a natural for scoring horror movies.
Author:
Jim Coleman
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This film is what it is. It's a campy thriller horror movie where you go and have fun. With these types of films, you can't take it too seriously. They are what they are.
Author:
Morris Chestnut
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This man, although he appeared so humble and embarrassed in his air and manners, and passed so unheeded, had inspired me with such a feeling of horror by the unearthly paleness of his countenance, from which I could not avert my eyes, that I was unable longer to endure it.
Author:
Adelbert Chamisso
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In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a bum.
Author:
John Carpenter
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It's a very good time for horror. This business certainly has changed, but there's still room for serious horror films. Look at 28 Days Later, that's not a tongue-in-cheek picture.
Author:
John Carpenter
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One could make money and get a career going with a low-budget horror film about killers attacking on holidays. It is always flattering to have somebody copy you.
Author:
John Carpenter
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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.
Author:
John Carpenter
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And I'm auditioning right now for a movie, and then I have a script that I'm reading right now for a horror film, and I'm meeting for a couple of television shows that I just had yesterday, and pretty much was offered one of them.
Author:
Trishelle Cannatella
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I'm just one of those people that if I sit down to watch a horror film, I put my hands over my face and I cry a lot and I don't see half of the film because I'm too upset.
Author:
Neve Campbell
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Scream was great for what it was. For a horror film, it was intelligent, it was funny, it took a laugh at itself.
Author:
Neve Campbell
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There are a couple of things in there if we're constraining this discussion to horror here.
Author:
Eddie Campbell
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We could hang around for ten years and nobody would care enough to identify us. Therein lies the horror.
Author:
Eddie Campbell
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I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
Author:
Taylor Caldwell
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The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.
Author:
David Byrne
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But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.
Author:
Octavia Butler
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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.
Author:
Gerard Butler
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I think I've only done one horror movie, Psycho III. That was a walk in the park compared to a romantic comedy.
Author:
Carter Burwell
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Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror.
Author:
William Burroughs
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Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers.
Author:
Luis Bunuel
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I think film had a terrible effect on horror fiction particularly in the 80s, with certain writers turning out stuff as slick and cliched as Hollywood movies.
Author:
Poppy Brite
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I don't like to talk about work in progress, but the novel I'm working on now is definitely not horror.
Author:
Poppy Brite
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I'm always a fan of a good horror film.
Author:
Andre Braugher
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But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both.
Author:
Georg Brandes
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I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on.
Author:
Ben Bradlee
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The sky hides the night behind it, and shelters the people beneath from the horror that lies above.
Author:
Paul Bowles
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Alone is a much better film than House of the Dead and better than most horror movies out today.
Author:
Uwe Boll
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I think Alone in the Dark was too much an action creature movie than a horror creature movie.
Author:
Uwe Boll
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The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.
Author:
Robert Bly
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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.
Author:
Claire Bloom
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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.
Author:
William Blatty
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Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current.
Author:
William Blatty
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I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
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Josh Billings
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The eyes of some of the fans at Davis Cup matches scare me. There's no light in them. Fixed emotions. Blind worship. Horror. It makes me think of what happened to us long ago.
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Boris Becker
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France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.
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Charles Baudelaire
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In all the horror films that I have done, all of those women were strong women. I don't feel I ever played the victim, although I was always in jeopardy.
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Adrienne Barbeau
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I have a horror of not rising above mediocrity.
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Robert Baldwin
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The first horror film I remember seeing in the theatre was Halloween and from the first scene when the kid puts on the mask and it is his POV, I was hooked.
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David Arquette
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People can get obsessed with romance, they can get obsessed with political paranoia, they can get obsessed with horror. It's isn't the fault of the subject matter that creates the obsession, I don't think.
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Adam Arkin
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I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually have to do, ironically, with powerlessness and isolation.
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Adam Arkin
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You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
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Adam Arkin
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I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes.
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Dario Argento
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I think that true horror is accomplished by slowly getting into your brain. The old way is much more scary.
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Sergio Aragones
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Anyone can write a story based on the kind of horror where you see a guy in car and then there's the bad guy in the back seat. It's infantile to rely on that for telling a story. That's like going to bed and thinking there's a monster under your bed. It's silly.
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Sergio Aragones
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In horror movies today it's lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance.
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Alejandro Amenabar
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I saw 'Food, Inc.' last night - it was like a horror movie. I'm definitely thinking about my food supply now and how I want to grow my own.
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Lauren Ambrose
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When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.
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Dorothy Allison
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Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.
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Theodor Adorno
