Eli Roth Quotes

I think horror should never be safe, whether it's violent or non violent.

It's the idea that anticipation is as scary as anything in a movie could be. People's imagination is the most effective tool in creating terror or dread.

I've been a fan since I was a kid of that sort of bump-in-the-night stuff. I don't tend to go in too much for the slash-and-burn-'em or the walker kills on 'The Walking Dead.' That stuff's not necessarily the stuff that frightens me or gets me going. It's more the terror of waiting, the thriller aspects, that I find compelling.

I want folks to take horror seriously.

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

Our imagination often is more horrifying than being shown something.

We exponents of horror do much better than those Method actors. We make the unbelievable believable. More often than not, they make the believable unbelievable.

As a kid, I was a Hitchcock lover; I cared about the dark side of things.

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

I haven't done lots of horror.

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.

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.

I don't watch scary movies. Sometimes, even having to read the script and do an episode of 'Grimm,' I get a little tense because I know someone's going to jump out of somewhere.

The horror aspect, the scary parts, are easy for me. I mean, I can get into that pretty easy, because I get scared. You have to invest yourself in these characters.

I believe you can frighten people without showing their heads caved-in.

The strongest passion is fear.

It's very difficult to get an audience to be terrified of what's going on. Think about it: You're in a room with so many other people, so for them to be terrified and to care about what's going on on-screen takes a lot of work.

The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from everyday life.

In 'Scream,' there is very real drama that would be in almost any drama.

For me, I would say that horror is my absolute favorite form of entertainment.

True horror, I think, deals with dread and menace and gets under your skin.

I'm just trying to make movies simply about life. Naturally, when I'm doing that, horror, violence, and all those kinds of things get mixed in. All those things happen in reality.

Good horror is about so much more than slashing: it's a way of examining grief and loss of self.

Horror itself is such a magical genre.

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