Andy Muschietti Quotes

I think horror should never be safe, whether it's violent or non violent.

Dolls, perhaps more than any other object, demonstrate just how thin the line between love and fear, comfort and horror, can be. They are objects of love and sources of reassurance for children, coveted prizes for collectors, sources of terror and horror in numerous movies, television shows, books, and stories.

The Joker is my favorite villain of all time: You don't know his past; you just know what his plans are.

What's scary is the unknown, the stuff you can't put your finger on.

Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.

I always think it's not what we know that's terrifying; it's what we don't know. That's sort of pervasive with everything in life.

One day the "Don't Knows" will get in and then where will we be?

Tomorrow is the mysterious, unknown guest.

Life would be unbearably dull if we had answers to all our questions.

Where I come from Nobody knows; And where I'm going Everything goes. The wind blows, The sea flows - And nobody knows.

Horror is always aware of its cause; terror never is. That is precisely what makes terror terrifying.

A little while with grief and laughter, And then the day will close; The shadows gather ... what comes after No man knows.

It's better not to know so much about what things mean or how they might be interpreted or you'll be too afraid to let things keep happening. Psychology destroys the mystery, this kind of magic quality. It can be reduced to certain neuroses or certain things, and since it is now named and defined, it's lost its mystery and the potential for a vast, infinite experience.

Not knowing what's happening, from script to script, as an actor and as a character, lends itself to the same tension and anxiety of not knowing what's happening.

I started after him...and the clown looked back. I saw Its eyes, and all at once I understood who It was." "Who was it, Don?" Harold Gardner asked softly. "It was Derry," Don Hagarty said. "It was this town.

The mystery lies in the irrationality by which you make appearance - if it is not irrational, you make illustration.

The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery.

Men are intrigued by anything they do not completly control.

And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable. You remember the woman at Margate whom I suspected for the same reason. No powder on her nose - that proved to be the correct solution. How can you build on such a quicksand? Their most trivial action may mean volumes, or their most extraordinary conduct may depend upon a hairpin or a curling tongs.

I feel like I am involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a dealer who won't tell me the rules, and who smiles all the time.

Terror. When you come home and notice everything you own has been taken away and replaced by an exact substitute. It’s when the lights go out and you feel something behind you-you hear it-you feel its breath against your ear, but when you turn around there’s nothing there.

And the vagueness of his alarm added to its terrors; when once you have taken the Impossible into your calculations its possibilities become practically limitless.

I love not knowing. It keeps me guessing.

The future is a strange monster. The less there is of it, the more it frightens.

Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous "I don't know.