Gene Roddenberry Quotes

'Ravenswood' is horror. It's not slasher, but it's psychological and spiritual horror.

I like the paranormal side a lot; that's my favorite kind of horror movie because it plays on your fear of the dark and makes you go home, and you can't sleep at night.

I tend toward the unnatural, sometimes with supernatural undertones or such.

I'd like to play an alien, like from 'Starman' or 'K-PAX,' where it's human. I think I'm destined to play an alien.

Horror, of all the genres, is the only one that can provoke an involuntary visceral reaction.

The thing I find really scary about ghosts and demons is that you don't really know what they are or where they are. They're not very well understood. You don't know what they want from you. So it's the kind of thing you don't even know how to defend yourself against. Anything that's unknown and mysterious is very scary.

Horror and the unknown or the strange are always closely connected so that it is hard to create a convincing picture of shattered natural law or cosmic alienage or 'outsideness' without laying stress on the emotion of fear.

I happen to collect the weird stuff - photos that make the hair on the back of your neck stand up a little. The uncanny.

When Leo takes the record from me, it will hurt a little. But it's not just anyone taking it away. It's not a normal person. A Martian is taking it from me. That makes me feel a little better.

I'm not a player; I'm an alien.

Lionel Messi is not human. He is from another galaxy.

Alien's a great one. That's a scary movie.

If you want to call it that. But it is a very specific sort of magic. There's a magic you take from death. Something leaves the world, something else comes into it.

The cat is cryptic, and close to strange things which men cannot see.

Perhaps living souls had greater phantom powers than the dead.

Why not rise from the grave and terrorize a little instead of staying buried and dead in the cemetery?

Twist my Body like the Exorcist.

He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.

My idea of magic doesn't have much to do with stage tricks and illusions. The whole world abounds in magic.

Horror movies are always a solid dollar. But a movie about Groucho Marx is a gamble. These things just are. Doesn't matter who you are.

I have a magical work in a magical way. I give magical service for magical pay.

I say I’m an atheist but I wouldn’t mind being visited by a ghost.

I am SHADOW, and my dwelling is near to the Catacombs of Ptolemais, and hard by those dim plains of Helusion which border upon the foul Charonian canal." And then did we, the seven, start from our seats in horror, and stand trembling, and shuddering, and aghast, for the tones in the voice of the shadow were not the tones of any one being, but of a multitude of beings, and, varying in their cadences from syllable to syllable fell duskly upon our ears in the well-remembered and familiar accents of many thousand departed friends.

I love the supernatural in storytelling. The Twilight Zone was a huge influence on me, in terms of writing and storytelling, where you're not restricted to the parameters of reality to tell your tale.