George A. Romero Quotes

Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current.

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.

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

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

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

I want folks to take horror seriously.

There's a certain joy in taking a dramatic narrative and then adding that element of horror to it.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Horror itself is such a magical genre.

I've always been fascinated by horror.

I hate horror movies, with a passion.

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

I guess the reason that I'm a horror fan is that I think it gives people the opportunity to enjoy the feeling of being scared in a safe environment. I think that's why, for all of human history, we've been telling each other scary stories: because it exorcises something that we need to exorcise in a safe place.

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

Horror isn't only about ghosts or monsters. For example, paranormal romance seems the antithesis of horror. Once you have a sexy, fun vampire who is sweet, and you have a happy ending, it's not horror.

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

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.

I don't see scarey films. I certainly wouldn't go see my films.

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

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

I've been reading horror since I was five years old.