Cassandra Peterson Quotes

The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from everyday life.

It's not an easy place to be - to write a horror film. You go down the stairs to the dark to find these characters. It's not a place anyone can go, and sometimes it's not a place that you want to go.

It's easy for me to write a horror movie about real stuff because my mind is always going there anyway.

I've always been fascinated by horror.

Horror is a totally different animal. It's intense. You can do drama or comedies, but in horror, you really have to trick yourself into believing a lot of unbelievable phenomena.

There often is a dark secret in books... There is often a gathering sense of dread; there's a gap sometimes in the text from which all kinds of monsters can emerge.

The best monsters are our anxieties given form. They make sense on the level of a dream - or a nightmare.

Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.

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.

I just know I'm too much of a wuss for Stephen King's books. I'm way too chicken to read horror.

Horror fans need horror, okay? They don't need little worms squirming around going down your throat. To them, that's not horror.

Horror, of all the genres, is the only one that can provoke an involuntary visceral reaction.

I love horror and sci-fi.

I loved ghost stories. I love horror stories. I love all of that stuff, but I really yearn for something to actually frighten me. It's more of a yearning for that than something that has to necessarily be cerebral or sophisticated. Good storytelling and something that actually frightens you.

Every so often, when I am feeling plucky, I try to write a screenplay that combines all 10 of Americans' top phobias and market it as a sleeper hit.

Nothing's scarier than wrestling The Boogeyman.

Horror itself is such a magical genre.

I'm always interested in horror and the supernatural.

I am actually terrified of horror films.

I hate horror movies, with a passion.

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

Horror isn't only about ghosts or monsters. For example, paranormal romance seems the antithesis of horror. Once you have a sexy, fun vampire who is sweet, and you have a happy ending, it's not horror.

You kind of invite a little spooky, creepy vibe into your whole experience of making a movie.

I love horror, I love scary movies, I love thrillers. If things creep you out and spook you? I love it.

Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.