Noah Hawley Quotes

People love to be scared. I guess it's a primal deal.

Our lives are pretty calm. Merging on the freeway in the closest you get to risking your life. So what's missing now is that primal emotion of being scared to death, and I think that's why people crave thrills like roller coasters or scary movies. They give you the chance to feel this very primal emotion in a very controlled environment.

People like scary stories. There's a fascination with fear themes, and we want to face those things in a weird, subconscious way.

In extreme danger, fear feels no pity.

I definitely love to be scared. It draws the primal side out of you.

If people are shooting at you, it's human nature to be afraid. I was afraid. I'll be quite blunt about that.

I need to be frightened of things. I hate it, but I must need it, because it's what I do.

People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

The purpose of fear, clearly, is to help you get away - which it does. If your heart rate increases, there is more blood pumping so you can use that blood to fuel your muscles to run away. Oxygen is sent to the lungs so you can run fast. Pupils dilating help you see in the dark. All of that prepares your body to fight or escape.

Nerves are good. They keep you alive.

When you say 'fear of the unknown', that is the definition of fear; fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and it's genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because we're not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.

Of the primary emotions, fear is the one that bears most directly on survival. Children show fear. Adults try not to, maybe because it's shameful, or, in some circumstances, dangerous. The fear response is automatic, though, and your body runs through its reflexes whether you want it to or not.

I grew up watching horror films from a very young age. My sister was never able to watch scary movies; I don't think she'll ever watch mine because she's just so bad at it. Its funny because I'm the complete opposite: I love to be scared. I love to have that fear before you go to bed, and you're like, 'Oh my God, please, nothing come out.'

I do watch a lot of horror movies, so not a lot of things scare me anymore.

You need to be in danger; otherwise, you get old.

As a human, if you're in a scary situation, you pretty much forget about everything else! You just try and survive.

If I ever feel that this is dangerous or I'm scared of it, then that probably draws me more towards it.

After a scary movie about the world almost ending, we can walk into the sunlight and say, "Wow, everything's still here. I'm OK!" We like to tease ourselves. Human beings have a need to get close to the edge, and when filmmakers or writers can take them to the edge, it feels like a dream where you're falling, but you wake up just before you hit the ground.

I suddenly remember something I've been told about fear. That amid a hail of machine gun fire you notice the existence of your skin.

Horror is a reaction; it's not a genre. Somebody's life would have to be in danger for it [story] to be a horror story.

Fear loves the idea of danger.

I'm scared of any fighter I've ever fought because they are some dangerous people to be dealing with. That's also where the anxiety comes from.

Scary movies, for me, I used to be insanely scared of.

I don’t wanna die, man. They’re not playing. Have you seen how many of them are out there? One just took a shot at me, so unlike you morons, I’m hiding. Hiding is nice. (Vik)

It was dangerous stuff. We were running on top of moving trains. We got to do amazing things. I like doing stuff like that. I enjoy it. But believe me, there were things that were so dangerous that I wasn't touching them.