Sean Astin Quotes

I think if a horror movie is really scary, you'll think about it for weeks, and there's something kind of fun about that - about our art, really.

We watch a romantic comedy because we want to cry, say, or an action movie so we can participate in heroics. Horror's different. It can hit you with a moment of revulsion so hard you might want to erase the last five minutes of your life, please.

I like the paranormal side a lot; that's my favorite kind of horror movie because it plays on your fear of the dark and makes you go home, and you can't sleep at night.

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

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

I'm always jumping in my seat or gasping during a good horror movie.

I hate horror movies.

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.

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

If you're trying to write about very strong horror, very strong fear or very strong emotion, it's easy to overwrite it.

In terms of fear, I still am most afraid of Freddie Kruger.

I think most people, even if they say they hate horror movies, there's that feeling you get inside that you love. I mean, I love it. I love to have the hairs on the back of my neck stand up or get that chill up my spine.

The nice thing about a horror movie is that people go in looking to be unsettled.

I never liked horror up until I was like 10 years old.

I am actually scared of even watching a horror movie.

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.

We all are scared of bad things… So when you are watching a film, you see your fears on the screen.

Often, in horror films, the single most effective device for building a sense of scariness is the soundtrack: the clanking of chains, the groaning of off-stage ghouls, the unmistakable sound of a cannibal rustic firing up a chainsaw.

The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.

Horror movies scare me, because I watch them as just - I don't even watch them as an actor.

The strongest human emotion is fear. It's the essence of any good thriller that, for a little while, you believe in the boogeyman.

Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectivized. We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear will be lurking.

I'm equally terrified of both comedy and drama. The only thing I'm really comfortable with is action.

With a horror movie, you're making a metaphor. You're making a personalized nightmare for the protagonist.

And as I was sort of doodling, I was thinking, surprise and fear - probably fairly similar so let's just lose surprise. And that left us with five.