Quotes on Horror

Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.

Author: Theodor Adorno

I think that true horror is accomplished by slowly getting into your brain. The old way is much more scary.

Author: Sergio Aragones

I have a horror of not rising above mediocrity.

Author: Robert Baldwin

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.

Author: Martha Beck

Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current.

Author: William Blatty

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

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

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

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

Author: Taylor Caldwell

There are a couple of things in there if we're constraining this discussion to horror here.

Author: Eddie Campbell

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

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

Any horror element is as much psychological as special effects.

Author: Christopher Eccleston

The modern horror audience is wise to our tricks this lets it in on the gag.

Author: Robert Englund

I am determined to go through the horror of this world.

Author: Brian Epstein

Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.

Author: Carlos Fuentes

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

I'm quiet, and I don't enjoy watching horror flicks, so am I like Zeke? No way.

Author: Josh Hartnett

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

Author: Thomas Hobbes

I tell you, I feel like a real novice as far as horror goes.

Author: Lawrence Kasdan

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

If you were the only suspect in a senseless bloodbath, would you be standing the the horror section?

Author: Jamie Kennedy

There are certain rules one must abide by in order to succesfully survive a horror movie.

Author: Jamie Kennedy

The horror genre is important because it promotes experimentation in filmmaking.

Author: Richard King

This indication of audience interest is good for all horror movie makers at any budget level.

Author: Richard King

I have done some short pieces that are not horror.

Author: Richard King

Well, don't tell Steve Niles but I just don't think horror works in comics.

Author: Robert Kirkman

Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror.

Author: Dean Koontz

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

Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.

Author: H. Lovecraft

Stephen King writes a lot of things that are really charming and quirky, and that are more ironic than horror.

Author: William Macy

The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.

Author: Norman Mailer

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

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

The horror of it is, every goddamn thing you look at seems pretty scary to me.

Author: Kary Mullis

I'm a horror movie fanatic.

Author: Gina Philips

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

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

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

Author: Jeri Ryan

A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror.

Author: Wilhelm Steinitz

Even the contemporary horror authors who have seriously influenced me are a disparate bunch.

Author: George Stephen

Trying to break into the horror market seemed natural.

Author: George Stephen

So, I outlined a horror novel and started writing.

Author: George Stephen

Many of my short stories (all unpublished) were horror, and the novel I'd just finished was horror, too.

Author: George Stephen

I've been reading horror since I was five years old.

Author: George Stephen

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

I throw it all in there, Kung Fu, blaxploitation, horror.

Author: Keenen Wayans

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.

Author: Prince William

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.

Author: Fay Wray