Paul G. Tremblay Quotes

The genre of horror is really just a way to manage much larger, much more terrifying realities in our daily worlds.

What scares me is what scares you. We're all afraid of the same things. That's why horror is such a powerful genre. All you have to do is ask yourself what frightens you and you'll know what frightens me.

Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear.

Horror is about dreams and heightened states. It really is about taking away the logic on some level and getting right to the emotion of something.

The horror of it is, every goddamn thing you look at seems pretty scary to me.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

Horror of any kind is dependent on a certain amount of insecurity and paranoia from the audience. And it feeds on that and works on that.

While there's life, there's fear.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

I'm scared of the unknown future.

Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.

Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.

The unknown is always frightening.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?

Fear has been good to yours truly.

I fear the future.

I think if you looked at the kind of ebb and flow of supernatural fiction and horror fiction, it does seem to be more popular in times when we're hammered over the head daily with threats from all angles, very real threats.

Horror can be contained within a book, given form and meaning. But in life, horror has no more form than it does meaning. Horror just is.

Americans have discovered fear.

When there is nothing to fear is the time to begin fearing everything.

To him who is in fear everything rustles.

There's something that really frightens me - and that's fear.

Fear is one of those really primal emotions which you don't want to have incredibly exciting modulations and complex harmonies and all that kind of stuff.

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.