Shanley Caswell Quotes

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

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.

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

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 don't go to horror movies. I walked out of 'The Exorcist,' man.

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

I am a big scaredy-cat; horror films terrify me.

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

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

I am scared of horror movies.

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

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

I hate horror movies, with a passion.

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.

I try to stay far away from anything creepy and supernatural. I'd rather not think about it.

Fear has disappeared. No more fear. In Asia, it is different. They've discovered again the fear and the psychology of the characters. Without psychology, the horror film doesn't exist.

I do not fear anybody on the field or in society, but I fear at night when I am away from my parents. I am scared of the unknown described in horror movies.

Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.

I'm scared of scary movies.

Horror is like a serpent; always shedding its skin, always changing. And it will always come back. It can't be hidden away like the guilty secrets we try to keep in our subconscious.

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

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

Real-life things, like spiders and snakes, that doesn't scare me, but if it's a monster or a ghost or an alien, that will always scare me.

Those films that really speak to the primal fear that we, as human beings, have about the unknown have always intrigued me. That's the really scary thing, not the slasher, macabre movies. It's the ones that deal with the inner fear: the unknown realms and the mysticisms that are scary.

Horror and the unknown or the strange are always closely connected so that it is hard to create a convincing picture of shattered natural law or cosmic alienage or 'outsideness' without laying stress on the emotion of fear.