Ari Aster Quotes

I think for a horror experience to be really scary, something has to be a bit of a shock and a surprise. It's like something you've never experienced before.

I don't think we should tell them what we're going to do in advance. Let them think. Worry. Wonder. Uncertainty is the most chilling thing of all.

When I watch 'Breaking Bad,' my stomach is in knots.

I think most people, even if they say they hate horror movies, there's that feeling you get inside that you love. I mean, I love it. I love to have the hairs on the back of my neck stand up or get that chill up my spine.

For me, what usually makes a horror sequence scary is the journey not the destination.

It's difficult, very difficult to create something new every time in this space of horror and scare people every time.

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

No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.

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.

It's nice to see that look of alarm on the faces of the others.

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.

Fear has disappeared. No more fear. In Asia, it is different. They've discovered again the fear and the psychology of the characters. Without psychology, the horror film doesn't exist.

If the hairs on my neck stand up while I'm writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock.

People do not come to a Penn & Teller show to see a magic show. They just don't. They come to see weird stuff that they can see no place else, that will make them laugh and make the little hairs stand up on the backs of their necks.

People love to get scared. People want to see the worst thing that can happen.

I don't like shows that are predictable. I like it when you're shocked and you have no idea who's about to die.

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

Horror is about dreams and heightened states. It really is about taking away the logic on some level and getting right to the emotion of something.

I never thought they would come

What is scary to me is silly to somebody else. CG isn't scary to me. It's like comedy - comedy and horror are quite similar, in that there'll always be somebody who'll say, 'I don't think that was funny.' And it's the same with things that are meant to be scary.

When you combine boring with fear, you have fun.

The nice thing about a horror movie is that people go in looking to be unsettled.

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.

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