Patrick Carman Quotes

Growing up, I was a huge fan of horror movies. There's nothing more fun than going into a movie with a smile because you know you're going to be scared to death. There's something thrilling about sitting there waiting for a scare to happen.

I loved growing up and going to haunted houses and being scared. I loved watching 'The Exorcist,' 'Candyman' and all sorts of scary movies.

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.'

When I was a little kid, I loved horror films. I always liked being scared.

I'm a big fan of being scared I like being scared. I like being involved in a film that will make audiences scared, that intrigues me.

I've never understood the appeal of feeling really scared. I know that people do find it really thrilling. For me, artistically, it needs to be worth the effort of me feeling uncomfortable watching it.

I prefer to be scared in a way that a 12-year-old would want to be.

As much as they deny it, I think people want to be scared. It's a phenomenon, why people want to be scared when there is so much violence and craziness in the world. People still really enjoy being scared. It's a conundrum to me. It's hard to explain. It's an unconscious thing, really, why people like that so much.

If something comes along that is totally outside of horror, fine, but I find there's an immense amount of freedom within the genre.

Some horror movies are just for shock value, so it doesn't really feel scary.

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

I will say that when it comes to the horror genre, for me, the scariest thing is when something is actually in the frame.

I've been a horror fan pretty much in the sense that my sense of horror and my sense of humor were both equally kindled by films as a kid.

People love being scared, even for long periods of time.

Well it's always been an element of the horror film to show us the gross out. I mean that's one option for all filmmakers making a horror film and it's not something I've found myself above either.

I love horror movies. I mean, who doesn't like a good horror movie every once in a while? It's fun to get scared.

I don't like the slasher stuff, myself, but I do like the psychological horror of Roman Polanski and that world. But, it's curious to me why people do like to be afraid.

I enjoy getting riled up, and nothing's gonna do that for you like a good scary movie.

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

In 'Clockwork Orange,' you're there with your eyes, watching all those things, your brain goes off, ahh, exposes you to so many things, and at the end of the day, it's just like a roller coaster. Why do you jump in a roller coaster? You want a thrill.

I like being scared every now and then, I like the suspense and the thrills. Nothing like taking a girlfriend to a movie and holding her hand while she jumps.

The key to thrillers is vicarious pleasure.

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

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

I love horror. I love 'The Shining,' 'Friday the 13th,' 'Halloween,' all those kinds of things. I love zombies, especially '28 Days Later' and '28 Weeks Later,' where the zombies are going faster than the George Romero ones. I love being scared; there's something that's awesome about your heart rate going up like that.