Leigh Whannell Quotes

I like the fact that major studios have been attempting horror films recently.

It's a very good time for horror. This business certainly has changed, but there's still room for serious horror films. Look at 28 Days Later, that's not a tongue-in-cheek picture.

I think in the late '80s and early '90s horror was dead.

For young filmmakers, Saw is a perfect film. It doesn't cost the GNP of almost every country of the world.

If one horror film hits, everyone says, 'Let's go make a horror film.' It's the genre that never dies.

I'm always looking for films, but the horror scripts that I get tend to be very repetitive and often not that interesting.

I think that, back in the day, there used to be a lot of horror films that kind of had a checklist of what went into making the 'perfect horror film', and I think now people are raising the bar in the industry, as far as the types of horror films that are being made.

Everybody's making horror films and, to me, not especially well.

A lot of my friends are people who do horror films: Wes Craven, John Carpenter, Stephen King.

I love horror movies, obviously; otherwise, I wouldn't make them.

I liked stuff like 'Halloween,' but I wasn't a horror fanatic until I was in my 30s and then made 'Paranormal Activity.' Now, having a company, I can't imagine doing anything else. But it took me a while to find my love for it.

I think I've covered every other genre. The truth is, I'm a horror fan myself. When I started in this business, horror wasn't cool. But it's cool now. Horror attracts A-list talent. That wasn't the case when I started.

Horror movies make a lot of money in India.

I have to tell you this - as a teenager, I never used to see any horror films till I started acting in films.

Most horror films are made very cynically, and they're usually made by studios for an audience that they know is there, no matter what they put out. And there are always exceptions - every year, it seems we have a great one coming out.

Independent horror movies have really stepped up the game, and hopefully mainstream Hollywood will follow suit.

I'd love to make a horror movie, that's definitely where I want to be one day.

Horror has been very good to me in my career. Doing horror films is for the fans and helps keep that part of my career alive.

I came to terms with living mostly in a world of horror pictures or genre pictures.

If you think about it, a lot of great horror films have bad sequels just because the market demands you to make the other one right away.

I don't like watching horror films. I actually don't. I don't watch horror films.

I do love a dark movie.

There is a big market for horror in India, but people don't explore that much.

I wasn't into horror movies.

I want to direct a feature film. Horror is my main genre.