Chris Van Allsburg Quotes

No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.

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

I just don't like getting scared, like when people hide and jump out of places. That totally freaks me out. I'm not a fan of it.

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.

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

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

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.

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

His body rigid with terror as he waited for the savages to something horrible to him—bash his head with clubs, or stab him with spears, or… …or tap him on the shoulder.

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

It's nice to see that look of alarm on the faces of the others.

I shudder at the image they would piece together.

I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud.

Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.

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 feel happy to terrify kids.

I just know I'm too much of a wuss for Stephen King's books. I'm way too chicken to read horror.

Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is.

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.

It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.

Part of what horror is, is taking risks and going somewhere that people think you're not supposed to be able to go, in the name of expressing real-life fears.

Scary things are good, aren't they?

Imprint' was definitely the scariest project that I've worked on.

I'm definitely not for any haunted houses. They're all scary to me.

My adult life is filled with the things horror movies are made of.