Quotes About Terror

Dread of returning to Iraq equals the direst poverty, and that's how he feels right now, poor , like a shabby homeless kid suddenly thrust into the company of millionaires. Mortal fear is the ghetto of the human soul, to be free of it something like the psychic equivalent of inheriting a hundred million dollars. This is what he truly envies of these people, the luxury of terror as a talking point, and at this moment he feels so sorry for himself that he could break right down and cry.

Baby talk has tremendous potential, despite its obvious dangers and its near-total incomprehensibility. The only reason you don't embrace it is your abject terror.

One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned terrorism, in poetry, and painting. The man who can look at impassioned subjects of terror with a feeling of exultation may be certain he has an elevated taste.

It's like this. Terror might make someone kill, but love will make someone die. People die for love. They would give up anything for love, even their life. And don't you see, that's a denial of the most basic of all human instincts: survival.

What makes Freddy Krueger such a horrible character? What makes him scare you to death? You can't get rid of the guy. He never goes away.

There are a couple of things in there if we're constraining this discussion to horror here.

I'm a huge horror fan.

I'm a big fan of horror, personally.

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

One day, I would love to make a horror film.

I am a big scaredy-cat; horror films terrify me.

Horror films are the anchovies of the cinema. Either you like them, or you don't.

I think horror films always have to be as simple as possible.

I've never really liked horror films.

I am actually scared of even watching a horror movie.

I love, love, love, love horror movies.

For me, horror movies are a real escape.

My adult life is filled with the things horror movies are made of.

I hate horror movies.

I love horror movies.

They have so many great horror movies made in the '80s. I mean, the old-school horror is so good.

I have had a lifelong fascination with horror movies, scary movies, how they work.

If you make horror movies, you always have to think what's photogenic and what's not.

I don't watch horror movies - they freak me out.