William Peter Blatty Quotes

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.

I want folks to take horror seriously.

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.

Horror is edgier. Dark fantasy feels mushier to me. Finding the difference - it's an instinct. And they overlap a lot.

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

Horror itself is such a magical genre.

When horror is about something - capital-A about - that's when it's really landing.

I've always been fascinated by horror.

Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror.

I have always loved reading a little creep-factor and a lot of suspense.

No, the horror genre is not my first love. I don't run to the theater to see horror films.

I haven't done lots of horror.

Horror is a totally different animal. It's intense. You can do drama or comedies, but in horror, you really have to trick yourself into believing a lot of unbelievable phenomena.

I tell you, I feel like a real novice as far as horror goes.

Horror fans need horror, okay? They don't need little worms squirming around going down your throat. To them, that's not horror.

It's not an easy place to be - to write a horror film. You go down the stairs to the dark to find these characters. It's not a place anyone can go, and sometimes it's not a place that you want to go.

I loved anything spooky, mysterious, or frightening.

For horror, the needs of the story have to be first.

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

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

I'm not necessarily a horror fan. I just never really watched them that much.

Horror movies travel pretty well anyway. They're like action movies: People overseas can watch them and enjoy them, and they're not so culturally specific in terms of their references, and they can follow a good scary story.

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.

For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness.

The stuff I write with Joe Lo Truglio tends to lean towards horror-comedy and horror.