Horror films don't create fear. They release it.
I was a scared kid... I think I was born a nervous wreck, and I think movies were one way to find a way transferring my own private horrors to everyone else's lives. It was less of an escape and more of an exorcism.
If I quake, what matters it what I quake at? Our proper vice takes form in one or another shape, according to the sex, age, or temperament of the person, and, if we are capable of fear, will readily find terrors.
I'm definitely writing my fears. It's almost therapeutic to at least voice a terror, to say, 'I'm worried that Lake Powell looks low and Lake Mead looks even lower.'
I still have this image: I can't be controversial, I can't say things.
I have always staged my fears as a way to transcend them.
If a fear cannot be articulated, it can't be conquered.
I just write when fear overtakes me.
I'm a ghost," said the small figure, then added, a little uncertainly, "Boo?
Don't shame the young for releasing their pent-up fear.
Words are what you fight with but what you fight about is whether or not you're afraid of them.
My own approach has always been to push intense emotions down and attempt to deal with them later. When I was younger, I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life.
We all are scared of bad things… So when you are watching a film, you see your fears on the screen.
Sometimes when you open your mouth you show what you're afraid of more than anything.
I think people respond to dystopian stories because they're ways of acting out anxieties that we have and fears that we have about the future. So much media's coming at you over the Internet, your brain gets overloaded. You don't know what to do with it. And one thing you can do with it is read a story.
I actually think I've got a pretty good horror scream.
What's so exciting and unstoppable about the horror genre is that I view it all as metaphorical exploration. It's the safe place that we, as a culture, can deal with things that upset and frighten us - the darker side of our nature.
A horse's eye disquiets me: it has an expression of alarm that may at any moment be translated into action.
Disease is an experience of mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body. Divine Science takes away this physical sense of discord, just as it removes a sense of moral or mental in-harmony.
Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectivized. We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear will be lurking.
Yesterday NPR fired me for telling the truth. The truth is that I worry when I am getting on an airplane and see people dressed in garb that identifies them first and foremost as Muslims. This is not a bigoted statement. It is a statement of my feelings, my fears after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 by radical Muslims.
I like people and get along, and I'm afraid to express my anger and my rage.
The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.
No woman dares express all she thinks.
