Quotes About Horror

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

San Francisco is a breathtakingly beautiful city, with lots of great contrasts between dark and light, often overlapping each other. It's a great setting for a horror story.

I feel like in the '90s, horror just lost its way and everything became so safe and watered-down.

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 like horror; I like comedy; I like drama; I like action; I like female heroes.

I'm never interested in movies where you don't care about the people you're watching, and that's my biggest quibble about horror, that kids have gotten stupider and stupider.

I'm not a horror guy, it's not my thing, but I respect it a lot. I know how hard it is to make, especially to make good.

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!

The whole idea of genre and categorising films is a critic's construct. For me, I just try and make stories and see where they go, but there's nothing wrong with horror; there's nothing wrong with romantic comedies.

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

You decide you're going to do horror, then gosh darn it, do horror. Do what's expected. Don't kind of do it. Don't dilly-dally around, because people really enjoy the genre, and they expect certain things.

I love horror, fantasy and sci-fi. Those are my genres of love and devotion.

Horror can be contained within a book, given form and meaning. But in life, horror has no more form than it does meaning. Horror just is.

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.

I spent years only ever reading horror and then trying to write horror - and deep down, a horror writer is still what I'd love to be. But it wasn't until I started writing crime that things began to work for me.

As a jobbing actor, you can't afford to be choosy; if you're typed, you're generally working. I still feel that way, and the thing is, even within the horror genre, I now get to play all kinds of different roles.

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.

I started out with almost entirely black fans except for a little handful of people in the horror writers' community, and those people really liked horror, you know. They will go to any lengths and read whomever they can find because they like that feeling of being scared.

I grew up on genre. If it had a dragon on the cover, I was interested. But horror, especially, really gripped me in its bony fist.

I took a break from horror; I made three ghost movies back-to-back-to-back.

Critics tend to be very hard on the horror genre.