John Carpenter Quotes

I don't watch scary movies. Sometimes, even having to read the script and do an episode of 'Grimm,' I get a little tense because I know someone's going to jump out of somewhere.

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

It's a human desire to be scared. On some level, that's how we survived - that sense of fear and danger. Our lives are much safer, so we gravitate to those stories that makes us feel those things and learn lessons, even if it's just, 'What are you doing? Don't go in the basement!'

I am scared of horror movies.

I will never forget seeing Alien when it came out in 1979. I'm not that big a fan of horror, but I remember the slow build, the claustrophobic feeling on the spacecraft, this tremendous sense of impending doom.

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

The closer a horror story gets to the truth of things, the more affective it is going to be.

If you don’t want to be scared in a horror film, don’t close your eyes. Close your ears.

I loved ghost stories. I love horror stories. I love all of that stuff, but I really yearn for something to actually frighten me. It's more of a yearning for that than something that has to necessarily be cerebral or sophisticated. Good storytelling and something that actually frightens you.

I've seen a lot of horror, but I'm not a horror guy.

Life is a dangerous thing. Insecurity is the price of living.

People used to always complain that horror films have no stories, that it's all just about kills and stuff like that.

I'm not a horror fan. I get scared easily.

I'm all about surprises. If you watch a horror movie, and it's called 'Kiss Land,' it's probably going to be the most terrifying thing you've ever seen in your life.

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.

The type of movies that give me the heebie jeebies are thrillers, because anything that's playing with your thoughts and mind, that's scary. But one thing that they never do in horror movies that I always do is I pray. You never see them pray in horror movies.

I think, specifically with the horror genre, you have to make it very believable because it can come across ridiculous.

I love horror movies.

Panic is a natural human response to danger, but it's one that severely compounds the risk.

I do not watch horror films. At all. I am not a horror film girl; I don't have the stomach for it. I've seen a few in my lifetime, like 'The Shining' or 'Carrie,' but I can't sleep for, like, a week after I see something like that.

I just wanted to be a part of something that's a horror movie that scares you.

I love, love, love, love horror movies.

When most kids were hiding their eyes or cowering under the covers, I was three inches away from the television when horror movies were played.

Horror is one of the few genres that allows you to explore areas in film that normally you wouldn't otherwise.

I do watch a lot of horror movies, so not a lot of things scare me anymore.