Russell Brand Quotes

Since I was a kid, I've had this morbid fascination with dark and scary subject matter.

I grew up on Stephen King, reading the books. I love the small town, 1950s feel to it, that nostalgia, and that old America. What happens when something weird starts happening to all these people, something other-worldly, something demonic?

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

I have a complicated relationship with the horror genre. I love it; I loved it as a kid growing up, and I watched Chiller Theater in New York. So I loved it, but then you do feel if you do it too much, you're stuck there.

Vampires are super sexy.

Horror movies scare me. I don't really watch them. I'm not a big horror genre fan. I like certain classic horror - like 'Alien', 'Jaws', 'The Exorcist', stuff like that.

Horror will always be there, it always comes back, it's a familiar genre that some people, not everyone - it's sort of the cinema anchovies. You either like it or you don't.

Well, don't tell Steve Niles but I just don't think horror works in comics.

The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.

I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka.

I was kind of a dark kid. I loved Halloween, and I loved vampires and the black and white old monster movies.

We need horror stories for people to focus on.

I love horror, mystery, and science fiction, and Poe was one of the founding fathers of those worlds.

I've always been drawn to spooky things, to the unusual, to things that are dark but in a friendly way.

I loved anything spooky, mysterious, or frightening.

Horror itself is such a magical genre.

There's a certain joy in taking a dramatic narrative and then adding that element of horror to it.

I've always been fascinated by horror.

I want folks to take horror seriously.

I have a long, complicated history with horror.

I want a room decorated with bones!" Dan said. "Where'd they come from?" "Cemeteries," Amy said. "Back in the 1700s, the cemeteries were getting overcrowded, so they decided to dig up tons of old bodies–all their bones–and move them into the Catacombs. The thing is...look at the dates. See when they started moving bones into the Catacombs?" Dan squinted at the screen. He didn't see what she was talking about. "Is it my birthday?

Lon Chaney and Boris Karloff didn't like the word 'horror'. They, like I, went for the French description: 'the theatre of the fantastique'.

But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning of the 19th century, but frowned upon in polite society.]

In horror stories or in fairy tales, the fascination with the morbid is also, at least for me, a way to prepare for the unthinkable… That’s why it’s very important for me to show the artificiality of it all, because the real horrors of the world are unmatchable, and they’re too profound. It’s much easier to absorb – to be entertained by it, but also to let it affect you psychologically – if it’s done in a fake, humorous, artificial way.

With his long sharp nails he opened a vein in his breast. When the blood began to spurt out, he took my hands in one of his, holding them tight and with the other ceased my neck and pressed my mouth to the wound so that I must either suffocate or swallow... Some of the...Oh my god…my god What have I done?