Bong Joon-ho Quotes

I'm always a fan of a good horror film.

No, the horror genre is not my first love. I don't run to the theater to see horror films.

I think Alone in the Dark was too much an action creature movie than a horror creature movie.

You run the risk, whenever you build your story around a central mystery, of either letting it go too long, or revealing it too soon and then taking the wind out of the sails of the narrative.

As an audience, I must share that I was never a fan of a horror films.

If you're telling a story it's always best not to play the ending.

I get to show the reader the essence of the book without giving anything away.

I always go with the story and character and if those are good and if the setting is something that's scary (horror films seem to always take place at night and the weather's always bad) then I might be interested.

I'm a fan of good horror movies.

A lot of shows peak after a series and never get it back, but 'Breaking Bad' keeps the tension up all the time.

I think that the joke and the ghost story both have a similar set up in that you kind of set something up and pay it off with a laugh or a scare.

The slasher film is such a neat, self-contained genre.

A really good horror film has a story.

With a horror movie, you don't want to anticipate where things are going to go.

The nice thing about a series is you can end on cliffhangers all the time. You can be like, 'You know what? Here we go, this person just died, end of book.' And with the end of the series, you're very conscious of all the plotlines that were left hanging. There's a balance there to wrap those up but still leave it exciting.

Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there.

Plot is tremendously important to me: I can't stand books where nothing happens, and I can't imagine ever writing a novel without at least one murder.

If you can actually get someone to sit on the edge of their seat and feel nervous if there's a knock at the door, then you've done something pretty terrific as a writer.

We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.

I am very, very anti-slasher.

I mean suspense, twists are almost impossible these days.

I've never really liked horror films.

Every story needs an element of suspense - or it's lousy.

People used to always complain that horror films have no stories, that it's all just about kills and stuff like that.

Horror films are the anchovies of the cinema. Either you like them, or you don't.