Quotes from Maika Monroe

You go to see movies to feel something, and being terrified - there's something so fun about that.

I grew up watching horror movies with my dad. For as long as I can remember. I grew up loving being terrified. 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' at sleepovers. Hiding behind my fingers.

I just want to go for it. In every aspect of my life and careers, I just want to give it all I have.

I think it's really good to get the adrenaline pumping.

It's really cool to be able to do both. I get a chance to be in this film with these amazing actors, the coolest people ever, and I try to kiteboard as much in my free time as I can.

Cape Town, South Africa, was pretty incredible. That's probably the coolest place I have ever been, and the kiteboarding is insane there. It's so windy, so you can get massive air.

I grew up such a horror fan, it's kinda cool being named 'Scream Queen.' I like that.

I don't look at myself as a Scream Queen, and I don't plan on continuing on this genre route. If anything, I want to go very different places.

There's a lot of garbage, and then there are those ones that just stand out so incredibly. You fight for those roles; you do everything in your power to get it.

Before acting took off, I was a professional kiteboarder training for the world circuit; with a sporting activity, you have to be determined, and it taught me to have a thick skin, which came in use after going to so many auditions and being told 'no.'

I love horror movies. It's so fun being absolutely terrified. It's damn hard to shoot, though. I didn't realize how difficult it was to make a horror movie as an actor. Physically and mentally, phew.

My dad showed me loads of films when I was young, but I never thought I would be in movies. That didn't seem like a real job to me.

I remember reading 'The Guest' and thinking, 'This is going to be something!'

I've never experienced complete terror, knock on wood, or running for my life or any of that.

For me, I grew up doing kiteboarding where no girls are doing it, and you had to prove yourself. You just had to know that you could do it, too. It's the mentality you had to have to make it. I work hard like anyone else.

Signing up for 'It Follows,' I didn't have any idea it was going to turn out the way it did, but seeing it, the music and the feel of it definitely was pretty amazing, getting that kind of throwback feel to classic horror movies.

There's a lot of comedy in 'The Guest,' so it was a bit more fun in a sense - it wasn't so heavy like 'It Follows.'

In the Dominican Republic, my mom and I lived in this little tiny town called Cabarete, which is very poor.

To be honest, you don't get the full picture when you read a script.

I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.

Do stuff that scares you on a regular basis. I think it's good for the body and for the mind.

I have my own past and my own personality. I'm going to relate to the material in a completely different way than somebody else might.

I grew up really loving old-school horror such as 'Halloween' and 'The Birds.'

I'd never thought of horror as being so challenging, but it is.