Quotes About Darkness

I love horror films. I love ghost movies and haunted-house movies.

In most horror films, you don't really get to understand why this character is the way he is.

The kind of filmmaker that I am, even my darker horror films generally are still very fun. And I think that's important for me and the kind of films I make.

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

I love all horror movies.

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

I enjoy horror movies.

When I am in a hotel, and I turn off the lights and the TV, I just freak out. I turn the TV back on and don't get any sleep.

Hell lies at the bottom of the human heart.

Horror serves a cathartic role in human society, all throughout the world. It is a way of confronting the darkness, both within and without.

I want to see these bad, bad, bad, bad men come to grips with their humanity.

There's a hidden Goth in me: I have a dark sense of humour; I have a dark sense of fashion.

The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it.

There was nothing I wanted to do more than be unconscious again, wrapped in black, gone away. I was raw. I felt swollen with potential tears, like a water balloon filled to burst. Begging for a pin prick.

Coffee goes great with sudden death.

The Days were a clan that mighta lived long But Ben Day's head got screwed on wrong That boy craved dark Satan's power So he killed his family in one nasty hour Little Michelle he strangled in the night Then chopped up Debby: a bloody sight Mother Patty he saved for last Blew off her head with a shotgun blast Baby Libby somehow survived But to live through that ain't much a life —SCHOOLYARD RHYME, CIRCA 1985

Draw a picture of my soul, and it'd be a scribble with fangs.

I was lying in bed thinking about killing myself, a hobby of mine. Indulgent afternoon daydreaming: A shotgun, my mouth, a bang and my head jerking once, twice, blood on the wall. Spatter, splatter.

What can I say about a man who knows how I think and still sleeps next to me with the lights off?

Winter. No one likes winter." "It gets dark early, I like that." "Why?" Because that means the day has ended. I like checking days off a calendar—151 days crossed and nothing truly horrible has happened. 152 and the world isn't ruined. 153 and I haven't destroyed anyone. 154 and no one really hates me.

What an indulgence it would be, to just blow off my head, all my mean spirits disappearing with a gun blast, like blowing a seedy dandelion apart.

Women have spent so many years girl-powering ourselves... we've left no room to acknowledge our dark side. Dark sides are important. They should be nurtured like nasty black orchids.

Amy's story could have gone a million other ways, but she met me, and bad things happened.

You two are the most fucked-up people I have ever met, and I specialize in fucked-up people.