Quotes About Fear

There's always moments where you creep yourself out, and you think you heard something and you convince yourself that some spirit is in the room with you, but truly, I don't believe in any of that kind of thing. A lot of my friends really do.

I have always been afraid of banks.

The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.

Death is a monster; death is horrible.

Sometimes you see a monster sitting down in a chair and it looks ridiculous.

Fear seems like it's this physical thing - some monster - but it's just energy.

To me, it's far more efficient to mobilize the imagination. It's far more efficient to hear a creaking step, for example, than to see the face of a monster, which usually looks ridiculous, and where you know that the blood is ketchup.

Really interesting genre films, especially monster movies, evoke the fears of the times intentionally.

I think for really good-hearted people, that idea of putting yourself in the shoes of a monster to figure out why they acted that way, that's a really frightening idea.

I am not a natural show-off. Some of the monster comedians are terrifyingly assured, and I don't have that, and that's held me back.

If you're doing a movie, the minute you put a monster in it, it becomes a horror movie.

Everyone carries around his own monsters.

Monsters aren't as scary if you start shining lights on them.

I've always been scared of the dark and aliens and monsters and things like that.

I don't try to sanction other people's joy in monsters. I mean, I think the fact is, humor, fantasy - you know, like fear, desire or laughter - create genres of their own: comedy, melodrama, or erotic films or horror films... The boundaries cannot be defined. It's to each his own.

One thing that's a lot harder to put into stories than you'd think is the idea of a traditional monster, because monsters with a capital 'M' don't inherently lend themselves to a story about your character. Unless one of your characters is themselves the monster, simply having a monster leads to a chase or a hunt.

We have nothing to fear but fear itself - and monsters.

Monsters are evangelical creatures for me.

I think that most of the monsters I dream of, I dreamt of as a child.

The monsters are in your own head.

Imagination creates some big monsters.

Everybody loves monsters.

When I was a kid, I really got into monsters.

The scariest monsters are human beings and what we will do to each other.