Holly Black Quotes

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.

German readers are much like Brits or Americans: They read for the thrill of it, the occasional shudder down the spine, knowing it's not real - but looking over their shoulders anyway, just in case.

I am pretty scare-able. I guess that is why I like doing horror because my imagination can take me places.

I'm not a horror fan. I'm an anti-horror fan. I think horror fans feel deep down in the pit of their souls, they feel safe, and therefore bored. And therefore they want to be scared.

I think when people are scared, they like to see movies where the scares are not real.

The horror genre is real cathartic. It allows us to bring out the things that scare us and get it out and have an emotional release.

Being scared by a movie offers a safe catharsis, because the terror is confined to the screen. It's an adrenalin spike, and when I come back down, I feel a bit more leveled.

We watch a romantic comedy because we want to cry, say, or an action movie so we can participate in heroics. Horror's different. It can hit you with a moment of revulsion so hard you might want to erase the last five minutes of your life, please.

When I was a little kid, I loved horror films. I always liked being scared.

I love the first hour of a horror movie, the fear and anticipation. Then, when it gets bloody, I lose interest.

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.

Certainly with a book, people are going to be able to read it and give themselves permission to have that delicious feeling of being terrified because they're in a safe place while they're reading. That's what you can rely on as a writer, that people can let themselves be really frightened because they're really all right.

Americans are very enthusiastic. We have a new generation of moviegoers who love great horror films. I am a very imaginative man, and for me, it's easy to speak with my dark side. I have very beautiful, interesting nightmares.

Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.

One thing I know that's true about horror fans of any color is they like to be scared. And the easiest place to be scared is in a new thing.

I'm quite a rational person. I'm not very superstitious, but I really do enjoy horror as a genre.

You don't enter the theater and pay your money to be afraid. You enter the theater and pay your money to have the fears that are already in you when you go into a theater dealt with and put into a narrative.

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

I do watch a lot of horror movies, so not a lot of things scare me anymore.

In some ways, the audience becomes complacent when they go to a horror film. And so it's fun to take that attitude and then to upend it.

The genre of horror is really just a way to manage much larger, much more terrifying realities in our daily worlds.

It's amazing to dwell in the world of fantasy and fear.

I think safely experiencing fear by watching a horror movie makes real life a little less frightening.

I find that usually when I watch something like horror film, I'm constantly thinking no, it's not going to happen.

There's something exciting about being afraid.