Quotes About Fear

What's important to me about horror stories is to look at what's actually horrifying about humanity, instead of shining a flashlight on it and running away giggling.

First off, I could never become a doctor. Blood? Even the fake blood on 'American Horror Story,' I'm kind of ready to hurl.

PG-13 horror, I just don't watch that.

Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current.

I'm not so sure that horror should be dismissed as something less than literature.

I love '80s horror.

I haven't done lots of horror.

I have a horror of not rising above mediocrity.

The horror genre is important because it promotes experimentation in filmmaking.

I've been reading horror since I was five years old.

Trying to break into the horror market seemed natural.

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

I'm not much of a horror fan. When it comes to ghost stuff and demon stuff, I can't watch that.

I don't write that much horror. People tell me my books are scary, but they're not really; I don't go there.

I think that some laughter comes from escaped horror, doesn't it?

'American Horror Story' is dark, so you shouldn't be expecting too much happiness.

I am pretty scare-able. I guess that is why I like doing horror because my imagination can take me places.

I've always loved horror, I've always loved collecting, I've always loved weird and macabre things, and I've always loved conventions. So what could be better than having your own Fear FestEviL where all those great and crazy things can be enjoyed by like-minded people under one pretty cool roof? Nothing!

I'm a huge horror fan.

There's horror in your life, believe me, whether it's coming, or you've just been lucky to miss it today.

I'm a big fan of horror, personally.

There's something about being amid the chaos and the horror of a war that makes you appreciate all you don't have - and all you may lose forever.

If you're trying to write about very strong horror, very strong fear or very strong emotion, it's easy to overwrite it.

Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes one's fear, but the human being who has contact with it.