Katie Holmes Quotes

I don't watch scary movies. Sometimes, even having to read the script and do an episode of 'Grimm,' I get a little tense because I know someone's going to jump out of somewhere.

I love horror because you can never just sit back in your seat. You always have to be on the edge of it.

I've been a fan since I was a kid of that sort of bump-in-the-night stuff. I don't tend to go in too much for the slash-and-burn-'em or the walker kills on 'The Walking Dead.' That stuff's not necessarily the stuff that frightens me or gets me going. It's more the terror of waiting, the thriller aspects, that I find compelling.

I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie.

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.

I think good suspense and horror is really about creating situations that are relatable, and throwing a wrench in it and watching how people respond to it.

If you don’t want to be scared in a horror film, don’t close your eyes. Close your ears.

So much of 'Jaws' was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing.

Fear has disappeared. No more fear. In Asia, it is different. They've discovered again the fear and the psychology of the characters. Without psychology, the horror film doesn't exist.

It's the idea that anticipation is as scary as anything in a movie could be. People's imagination is the most effective tool in creating terror or dread.

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

I love watching scary movies because you always wonder what happens next, and that's what's going to happen on 'The Haunting Hour:' you're always going to want to know what happens next.

I am so scared of the 'Paranormal Activity' movies. I didn't think I was going to be able to sleep.

With a horror movie, you don't want to anticipate where things are going to go.

I love the first hour of a horror movie, the fear and anticipation. Then, when it gets bloody, I lose interest.

I am pretty scare-able. I guess that is why I like doing horror because my imagination can take me places.

Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation.

When you create those characters that people love and care about and put them in a dark hallway, already the audience is on edge, and they feel empathy for that character. Then it's up to me to decide what jumps out in that hallway. So I think laying that foundation of strong characters and strong story is the most important thing in a horror film.

I tried the second season of 'American Horror Story,' and it scared me horribly. I guess I prefer my own imagination to a realized visual.

In some ways, the audience becomes complacent when they go to a horror film. And so it's fun to take that attitude and then to upend it.

I'm a huge baby and horror films just terrify me, they're very effective with me.

It [horror genre] never dies. It just keeps getting re­invented and it always will. Horror is a universal language; we're all afraid. We're born afraid, we're all afraid of things: death, disfigurement, loss of a loved one. Everything that I'm afraid of, you're afraid of and vice versa. So everybody feels fear and suspense.

Fear is excitement without breath.

I have always loved reading a little creep-factor and a lot of suspense.

I think suspense is a big thing.