Jen Lilley Quotes

Horror movies have never been my thing. I love psychological thrillers like 'The Exorcist', 'The Shining', even though they scare the living daylights out of me.

A lot of modern horror can leave me cold, and I'm not good with blood and gore and all that stuff. It's not fun for me. There's nothing entertaining about watching a film like that.

I would say that in my black readership, more of my readers tolerate the horror aspect of my work, you know. 'I don't usually read this kind of stuff, but.'

I don't like the slasher stuff, myself, but I do like the psychological horror of Roman Polanski and that world. But, it's curious to me why people do like to be afraid.

I started in the psychological thriller side of feature filmmaking with 'Spiral,' which was the first one that I wrote and directed and played the lead in.

I am a fan of the monster and horror genre but that's not my style as a director.

My three obsessions are mental illness, horror and religion.

I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.

I'm hooked on Polanski's films, his psychological thrillers. I love 'Rosemary's Baby,' I love 'Repulsion.'

I like all of the mental, psychological thriller movies too. I enjoy horror movies across the board.

For me, it's very easy to write a horror movie that's just a succession of scary sequences, but it's hard to find horror movies that have a genuine theme to them that are really exploring some aspect of our psychology and our fears.

I don't really like scary movies. I mean, I didn't as a kid, but I think I got a bit better now. I've been easing myself into it, starting off with the less spooky ones.

'The Exoricist' and 'The Shining,' there is some horrific stuff, and it's mostly what you put in your own head, which I find amazing.

I find psychological thrillers interesting both dramatically and visually.

The horror genre is probably my favorite genre along with psychological thrillers.

I would definitely agree that 'The Witch' doesn't leave much of anything to the imagination. There are some ambiguities about 'The Witch,' for sure, but all in all, it's pretty clear what's going on.

I think my favorite horror films are really grounded in human psychology, which is to say I think through sort of extreme dislocations of reality.

Scary movies, for me, I used to be insanely scared of.

People don't call them horror movies, but Hitchcock, for me, is my favorite storyteller. He was really exploring dark themes, and I don't know what category you put his movies in. Thriller? Horror? Some of them go in either one.

Some horror movies are just for shock value, so it doesn't really feel scary.

There are very few horror films that I think are worth their salt.

I'm a huge horror film and sci-fi fan.

I don't personally like slasher movies that make you scream in the movie theater.

'The Shining' scares me so much.

There are a lot of horror films out there that are nasty, but what's nasty isn't necessarily scary.