Andrew Pyper Quotes

God! Is there anything uglier than a frightened man!

The mark of fear is not easily removed.

Any horror element is as much psychological as special effects.

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

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

For me, what usually makes a horror sequence scary is the journey not the destination.

I'm a huge baby and horror films just terrify me, they're very effective with me.

What happens with fear is that probability doesn't matter very much. That is, once I have raised the possibility that something terrible can happen to your child, even though the possibility is remote, you may find it very difficult to think of anything else. Emotion becomes dominant.

Number one is that it just scares people! Your hair is standing up on your arms, or at least that there's a few moments when you're jumping. That's what makes it a good horror movie.

Fear has disappeared. No more fear. In Asia, it is different. They've discovered again the fear and the psychology of the characters. Without psychology, the horror film doesn't exist.

I don't like to get scared - it's not one of the emotions I enjoy. So I have to assume that if there are scary things in my books, they aren't very scary.

There is a fascination with fear. It grabs our attention.

People love to get scared. People want to see the worst thing that can happen.

Being alone is scarier than any boogey man and the reason why I don't choose to see Horror movies as a rule.

Bad news sells because the amygdala is always looking for something to fear.

I'm scared of clowns.

Today fear, the most corroding of influences, is the moving cause ...

Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.

What we do not know, we often fear. What we do not understand, we fear. And what we fear becomes a threat.

The grotesque has never really affected or frightened me. I guess it's real-life stuff that frightens me much more.

True horror, I think, deals with dread and menace and gets under your skin.

I am scared of horror movies.

I can't watch horror films because I am easily scared.

Fear comes from your past observations. That fear settles inside you. It becomes your psyche. Something triggers it and it fuels that subconscious. There is no logic to it.

I remember being scared to death of horror movies as a kid. Sometimes, I missed the whole movie because I was so scared and couldn't look.