People who work in horror know they are contributing to a genre that has always been loved and will always be loved - privately. It's the forbidden evil working behind the curtain. My job scoring a horror movie is like being the barker at a carnival. A good barker can get anyone to walk into the roped-off tent.
When I was a kid, my favorite movies were the George Pal version of 'War Of The Worlds,' 'Them,' and 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers.' Those movies were scary! They haunted my nightmares for years, so when I started writing, I wanted to write a story that was just as big and just as scary.
To make Michael Myers frightening, I had him walk like a man, not a monster.
Racism is like a horror movie. Black kids die because of racism. I don't know what's more horrifying than that.
I prefer to be scared in a way that a 12-year-old would want to be.
I love scary movies and respect the filmmakers of scary movies, and it's just as hard to make a great scary movie as it is to make a great comedy or drama or anything else.
You just find the best actors that you can. There's an inherent drama within the framework of scares and killings and all that. In 'Scream,' there is very real drama that would be in almost any drama.
Everybody tells me to only do action films, but I would love to do horror, too.
I'm not a horror fan. I get scared easily.
When I was 12, I had a fondness for horror movies like the 'Wolfman.' The boy next door said I should read Poe.
For me, the sound design and the musical score is a big part of what makes scary movies work.
I'm such a horror geek, comic geek and action figure geek. I'm inspired by so much - from Hunter S. Thompson and Quentin Tarantino to 'The Dark Knight' and 'Halloween'. Just show me something that doesn't suck, and I'm happy.
I've seen little pieces of 'Interview with a Vampire' when it was on TV, but I kind of always go yuck! I don't watch R-rated movies, so that really cuts down on a lot of the horror.
Even more than dying itself, I'm scared of the horror-movie changes that happen to the human body as it ages. I think of it as a sort of haunted-house effect, living inside a crumbling, creaking structure that is full of ghosts and will, some day, fall down.
I like stuff like 'Top Gun.' I like horror films. I love them.
I'm terrified of the supernatural things, which is why I'm very grateful that I don't see things like that. Because if I did see things of the paranormal persuasion, I don't think I'd be able to continue making scary movies.
It is the creature that stands at the center of horror movies, not those who have made it their business to bring the beast down. We're all the same.
When I was old enough to go to movies alone, I got to see 'Frankenstein' and 'Dracula' on the big screen. I just fell in love with them.
People want to be disturbed when they go see a horror movie.
'Rosemary's Baby' is a real New York movie, even though you wouldn't necessarily think of it as one, though I do.
Maybe 'Bhoot' wasn't scary for me because I made it.
People don't call them horror movies, but Hitchcock, for me, is my favorite storyteller. He was really exploring dark themes, and I don't know what category you put his movies in. Thriller? Horror? Some of them go in either one.
I'm attracted to things that scare me, like 'Psycho,' my favorite Hitchcock movie.
I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is different.
I have a very high tolerance for gore and blood. I am, like, the perfect horror movie viewer because I do not get scared very easily. I can really stomach anything so, as a result, I have watched a lot of really disgusting stuff that I should probably never have seen.
