Mike Flanagan Quotes

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.

So much of 'Jaws' was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing.

I always go with the story and character and if those are good and if the setting is something that's scary (horror films seem to always take place at night and the weather's always bad) then I might be interested.

I love horror, I love scary movies, I love thrillers. If things creep you out and spook you? I love it.

I'm a guy who likes to watch something cool, creepy and suspenseful and there is no show to watch as an adult that would scare me at for even four seconds.

I'm always jumping in my seat or gasping during a good horror movie.

Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like 'The Grudge', I look in the corners of my room for the next two days.

I'm quite a rational person. I'm not very superstitious, but I really do enjoy horror as a genre.

I was inspired to become a writer by horror movies and science fiction.

I'm a big horror fan, but I don't enjoy a lot of gore and watching somebody cut their leg off for five hours. I like the older movies where it draws you into the suspense, that sort of shock and awe.

I tried the second season of 'American Horror Story,' and it scared me horribly. I guess I prefer my own imagination to a realized visual.

I get sent horror scripts every week and most of them are putrid. A lot of people think it's an easy medium but it's not. Not if you want to make ones that last.

I don't like watching horror films. I actually don't. I don't watch horror films.

I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message.

I will say that when it comes to the horror genre, for me, the scariest thing is when something is actually in the frame.

I've always been really terrible with horror films. I scare really easily and can't stand all the violence and gore.

I think when you make a genre or horror movie, you need a budget. When you skimp on blood and special effects and all that, it automatically looks cheesy. But a movie like 'The Room' is psychologically bad, which goes a lot deeper than just technically bad.

I feel like too many horror writers and filmmakers sort of just assume that the default is, 'The horror movie must be all atmosphere first and everything else second.'

The first thing Ravi Babu asked when we met was, did I watch horror movies? I told him it took me years to get over Ram Gopal Varma's 'Raat!'

Maybe 'Bhoot' wasn't scary for me because I made it.

I am scared of horror movies.

I love horror. It's funny, because 'The Invitation' never struck me as horror, but it's definitely that type of thriller.

Writing, when it works, one needs to access whatever it is that creates dreams.

I will never forget seeing Alien when it came out in 1979. I'm not that big a fan of horror, but I remember the slow build, the claustrophobic feeling on the spacecraft, this tremendous sense of impending doom.

As an audience, I must share that I was never a fan of a horror films.