Horror Trope Quotes

The zombie was just an intriguing character; it is a sympathetic character.

Vampires should never say Uh-Oh!!

Something coming back from the dead was almost always bad news. Movies taught me that. For every one Jesus you get a million zombies.

The zombie is the new, sort of, archetype of our times.

The first time I ever met Stephen King, he came up to me, and we went to shake hands, and he had, like, this fake rubber rat that he kind of, you know, shook at me. You know, and I said, 'No, this is a cliche - this can't be. Stephen King is trying to scare me with a fake rat?' It was just really weird.

It's almost like a genre rule: Don't Open The Box.

You know who was on time tonight, which surprised me? Ghostface. Ghostface was early and making calls - what rapper does that?

The idea of a Frankenstein-like creature is something I've done several times. It's such an icon of the horror scene.

I really hate the creature film convention that says you have to wait until the end to see the monster. One hour and all you've seen is just the tip of the creature's tail.