Annie Parisse Quotes

The horror genre is real cathartic. It allows us to bring out the things that scare us and get it out and have an emotional release.

Certainly with a book, people are going to be able to read it and give themselves permission to have that delicious feeling of being terrified because they're in a safe place while they're reading. That's what you can rely on as a writer, that people can let themselves be really frightened because they're really all right.

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

I have not seen 'It' because I don't like horror movies. I don't mess with clowns or demons.

I hate horror movies! I avoid them like the plague. I don't like getting scared.

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.

I started out with almost entirely black fans except for a little handful of people in the horror writers' community, and those people really liked horror, you know. They will go to any lengths and read whomever they can find because they like that feeling of being scared.

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

Horror will always be there, it always comes back, it's a familiar genre that some people, not everyone - it's sort of the cinema anchovies. You either like it or you don't.

Ironically, I wouldn't say I'm a massive horror fan. I love thrillers.

So, for the most part, I really like when I read a scene that scares me and makes me sweat a little bit, thinking about doing it. That's usually a good sign to me.

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

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

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.

There's no purer feeling in the world than being scared.

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.

Horror films are very effective to me; they have an impact on me. I think that real life things scare me a lot more.

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

I enjoy being slightly scared.

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.

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

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

Fear is excitement without breath.

I hate horror movies, with a passion.

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.