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Horror Quotes
"Stephen King writes a lot of things that are really charming and quirky, and that are more ironic than horror."
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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."
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"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."
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"And the moment she held that diary in her hands, she summoned all her demons at once. The moment she opened it a hand from every page held her and pulled her inside. And in a moment even before she could realize what was happening to her she was drowning in the sea, fighting to breathe and fighting to swim back to the surface. But the hands kept pulling her down deep into the darkness until her voice died slowly."
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"This indication of audience interest is good for all horror movie makers at any budget level."
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"The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation."
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"I've been reading horror since I was five years old."
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"Trying to break into the horror market seemed natural."
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"I tell you, I feel like a real novice as far as horror goes."
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"Well, don't tell Steve Niles but I just don't think horror works in comics."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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"Even the contemporary horror authors who have seriously influenced me are a disparate bunch."
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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."
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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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"All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain."
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"So, I outlined a horror novel and started writing."
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"Any horror element is as much psychological as special effects."
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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."
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"I am determined to go through the horror of this world."
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"The horror of it is, every goddamn thing you look at seems pretty scary to me."
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"Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror."
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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."
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"Many of my short stories (all unpublished) were horror, and the novel I'd just finished was horror, too."
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"There are a couple of things in there if we're constraining this discussion to horror here."
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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."
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"I have a horror of not rising above mediocrity."
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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."
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"A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror."
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"The horror genre is important because it promotes experimentation in filmmaking."
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"I'm quiet, and I don't enjoy watching horror flicks, so am I like Zeke? No way."
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"If you were the only suspect in a senseless bloodbath, would you be standing the the horror section?"
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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."
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"People are often wary of reading or watching anything in the horror genre because in their minds, it's just senseless gore, death and violence. Well, I can tell you from avid experience, that's not what horror is about. The horror genre teaches us that sometimes really bad things happen to really good people, but that hope always prevails in even the darkest of situations. That's a very important lesson, no matter how frightening you think the teacher is, and to be in the top of her class, all you need to do is to go in with an open mind."
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"I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty."
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