Leigh Whannell Quotes

Like a lot of people, I love a bit of blood and gore.

I think in the old days, films really went for the shock, with the blood and guts, but movies are getting better. The writing and directing have improved a lot, because the audience demands it.

A movie like 'The Last House On The Left' would be very hard to do in Europe.

It doesn't matter the amount of gore, the amount of shocks that you can have in a movie if the movie's not entertaining, if the story's not entertaining.

I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with the rest of cinema.

I watched 'Psycho' a million times.

If I don't come home covered head to toe in fake blood then I haven't done my job as a horror director.

I think 'The Thing' is so good because it's not just a scary movie. It's also social commentary, which works on multiple levels, which is something I really respond to.

My dad was on 'Zombieland,' and I love that movie. So yeah, I think I like the horror genre!

I was a huge horror fan, especially in my teenage years. Back then, there were a lot of Italian horror movies - some zombie, some just really strange movies that made no sense. I was really into shock and gore.

I love scary movies. I like blood and gore, and I love Halloween movies.

I've never been a big gore guy.

I believe you can frighten people without showing their heads caved-in.

In films of terror, it's often not about being graphic. Or if there is a graphic image, it's extremely swift. Everyone talks about the shower scene in 'Psycho,' but that's the only graphic scene in the entire film.

I don't understand it, but every horror film is huge. I would consider one, but I don't know if my heart would be in it.

You know, the best thing you can say about a horror film is, 'Don't see it.'

I'm looking at some comedic horror films because I have often been accused of being too dark. I'm not dark, not compared with 'Saw' or anything like that. So I'm looking at live-action horror films, but not slasher ones - ones that have humor and maybe some social satire.

'Evil Dead' was such a big movie in my life. It's one of the few that I really remember when I watched it for the first time. I mean, I don't remember when I first saw 'The Empire Strikes Back,' and it's one of my favourite movies.

I'm always a fan of a good horror film.

I'm a big horror fan, but I don't enjoy a lot of gore and watching somebody cut their leg off for five hours. I like the older movies where it draws you into the suspense, that sort of shock and awe.

The first 'Scream' was great for me in some ways, but in others it was... a challenge.

I hear the theme from 'Psycho' every time I take a shower. I lock the door.

I'm not interested in making horror-comedies, but I'm very interested in making scary movies with funny parts.

'House of a Thousand Corpses' by Rob Zombie - I love that movie. I really do.

I say 'spectacle' rather than 'story' because in the end, it isn't the intricacies of narrative that draw us to horror films. When it's there, I'm grateful for the director's skill at telling an exquisitely nuanced tale filled with psychological insight, but it is the spectacles that I take home with me.