Chris de Burgh Quotes

I wanted 'Alien' to be all about claustrophobia.

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 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 think horror films always have to be as simple as possible.

I'm always jumping in my seat or gasping during a good horror movie.

For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness.

I'm all about surprises. If you watch a horror movie, and it's called 'Kiss Land,' it's probably going to be the most terrifying thing you've ever seen in your life.

In 'Scream,' there is very real drama that would be in almost any drama.

I just wanted to be a part of something that's a horror movie that scares you.

I really feel like the horror genre is capable of so much. Especially as an in-theater experience, something you watch with other people. It can do so much.

I am scared of horror movies.

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

Horror movies, man, the blood entails so much time. And horror movies are not fun; definitely not starting there as a director. Definitely not horror.

No, the horror genre is not my first love. I don't run to the theater to see horror films.

To me a great sci-fi movie has elements of horror and suspense.

I don't go to horror movies. I walked out of 'The Exorcist,' man.

Horror movies can be very interesting because they can deal with intangible subjects that are full of emotion.

I hate horror movies! I avoid them like the plague. I don't like getting scared.

I always go with the story and character and if those are good and if the setting is something that's scary (horror films seem to always take place at night and the weather's always bad) then I might be interested.

I really love 'The Thing.'

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

The horror movie will not go away. Look at the change in the Hollywood landscape as a signifier of its durability. At one point it was just one of many styles of films called 'product' that between, say, 1930 and 1970, the movie city ground out like sausages or hula hoops at a rate of four or five a week.

Horror movies are all about getting your attention; you always have to be on guard. People love to be on the edge - there's nothing like a surprise.

I'm not necessarily a horror fan. I just never really watched them that much.