Ari Aster Quotes

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

Every so often, when I am feeling plucky, I try to write a screenplay that combines all 10 of Americans' top phobias and market it as a sleeper hit.

It's not an easy place to be - to write a horror film. You go down the stairs to the dark to find these characters. It's not a place anyone can go, and sometimes it's not a place that you want to go.

Horror, of all the genres, is the only one that can provoke an involuntary visceral reaction.

Maybe 'Bhoot' wasn't scary for me because I made it.

I have not seen 'It' because I don't like horror movies. I don't mess with clowns or demons.

I hate horror movies, with a passion.

I don't go to horror movies. I walked out of 'The Exorcist,' man.

Horror movies can be very interesting because they can deal with intangible subjects that are full of emotion.

Horror is a totally different animal. It's intense. You can do drama or comedies, but in horror, you really have to trick yourself into believing a lot of unbelievable phenomena.

You kind of invite a little spooky, creepy vibe into your whole experience of making a movie.

Horror fans need horror, okay? They don't need little worms squirming around going down your throat. To them, that's not horror.

I have always loved reading a little creep-factor and a lot of suspense.

Horror movies are here to stay, you know? It's not a fad. Even the musical has gone in and out of style from time to time. Horror movies have always been around.

To me a great sci-fi movie has elements of horror and suspense.

I've always had a fascination for everything surrounding things that are unexplainable. Not surprising that my first movie was a horror film, even though, of course, at the time I had no experience writing horror music.

Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current.

I love horror, I love scary movies, I love thrillers. If things creep you out and spook you? I love it.

I'm not necessarily a horror fan. I just never really watched them that much.

I think horror films always have to be as simple as possible.

Horror movies scare me. I don't really watch them. I'm not a big horror genre fan. I like certain classic horror - like 'Alien', 'Jaws', 'The Exorcist', stuff like that.

Even though I don't necessarily believe in everything that's supernatural, I like being scared and I like things that are suspenseful.

Horror will always be there, it always comes back, it's a familiar genre that some people, not everyone - it's sort of the cinema anchovies. You either like it or you don't.

Ironically, I wouldn't say I'm a massive horror fan. I love thrillers.

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.