Robert Englund Quotes

There is an excitement about having nightmares.

I am so scared of the 'Paranormal Activity' movies. I didn't think I was going to be able to sleep.

Gradually it occurred to me that we spend a great deal of life asleep and that dreams are little narratives, little stories. I thought, 'Who's choreographing this stuff?'

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.

I was informed... that some... were dreaming and wished to return.

I had nightmares as a kid. As an adult, I have very prosaic dreams.

I tried the second season of 'American Horror Story,' and it scared me horribly. I guess I prefer my own imagination to a realized visual.

Whenever I'm driving through an area of a town, and it gets really foggy, my brain immediately starts having anxiety because of 'Silent Hill.'

Our imagination often is more horrifying than being shown something.

I have very vivid dreams - almost always action-adventure. I'm often on the run. I've always had dreams. When I was little, I'd go to sleep with my head on my hands, which were in fists like I was looking through a camera. I felt like sleep was the movies - just drifting off to the movies.

Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world.

Nightmares are releases.

I only remember the end of my dreams, like waking up at a steering wheel, or falling.

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.

What you don't see is scarier than what you do. Categorization is always kind of arbitrary, but people have called 'Preservation' a 'psychological thriller.' To me, psychological thriller basically means 'a horror movie without the blood.'

Good dreams are better than films or books.

For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

The best monsters are our anxieties given form. They make sense on the level of a dream - or a nightmare.

I've had a quite a few nightmares about being chased by walkers.

I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you're making a horror film doesn't mean you can't make an artful film.

I'm also a great believer in the dream life; that while we're asleep, a deep subconscious connection is made about our profoundest fears, hopes, loves, losses, dreads and desires.

I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort of narrative, and other times they are just funhouses of non-linear imagery and other scary stuff.

I like 'Donnie Darko;' it's a cool take on dreams and sleep.

I love ghost stories but I can't really watch them, especially not by myself because then I can't sleep.

My dreams are of water. And my nightmares.