Jane Goldman Quotes

I love to be scared. Not, 'Hey, I think I smell smoke...' scared, but creepy, paranoid, what's-that-out-there-in-the-dark, ghost story scared. It's no surprise that I was the girl who got invited to the slumber parties because I could be counted on to tell a tale to scare the bejesus out of you.

Horror is a totally different animal. It's intense. You can do drama or comedies, but in horror, you really have to trick yourself into believing a lot of unbelievable phenomena.

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

Even though I don't necessarily believe in everything that's supernatural, I like being scared and I like things that are suspenseful.

A good horror movie - it doesn't matter how many comedy horror films there have been before. Doesn't matter how much you think it's going to be funny. A good horror movie will scare the hell out of you... the moment you sit down and you start being exposed to that story, it's going to freeze your blood.

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

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

I am actually terrified of horror films.

Horror isn't only about ghosts or monsters. For example, paranormal romance seems the antithesis of horror. Once you have a sexy, fun vampire who is sweet, and you have a happy ending, it's not horror.

Horror, for me, has to involve some sort of fantasy. Horror is something that is in your dreams or your nightmares.

I tell you, I feel like a real novice as far as horror goes.

I think if you looked at the kind of ebb and flow of supernatural fiction and horror fiction, it does seem to be more popular in times when we're hammered over the head daily with threats from all angles, very real threats.

Horror is edgier. Dark fantasy feels mushier to me. Finding the difference - it's an instinct. And they overlap a lot.

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.

Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like 'The Grudge', I look in the corners of my room for the next two days.

Though they don't always have to be set in fog, weather is incredibly important in ghost stories. As is suspense: you've got to turn the screw very, very slowly.

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

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

We need horror stories for people to focus on.

I've seen a lot of horror, but I'm not a horror guy.

Horror itself is such a magical genre.

When horror is about something - capital-A about - that's when it's really landing.

There's a certain joy in taking a dramatic narrative and then adding that element of horror to it.

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've always been fascinated by horror.