Ari Aster Quotes

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

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

I hope one day that I'll get to make another horror film; I'd love to.

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

I think in the old days, films really went for the shock, with the blood and guts, but movies are getting better. The writing and directing have improved a lot, because the audience demands it.

I love 'Paranormal Activity' and 'The Exorcist.' 'The Shining' is a great one too, but there's not a lot that scares me. Maybe it's because I know the other side of it, and I know how movies are made, but it takes a lot for me to get freaked out.

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.

This indication of audience interest is good for all horror movie makers at any budget level.

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

I like horror movies, they're fun. It was the most fun I've had on a movie set.

'Carrie' was a pretty big-budget movie at a real studio, with a director that had already done a bunch of things and had some notoriety, and Stephen King was the writer.

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.

Unless you're making Marvel movies, I think CGI usually suffers, especially in mid-budget-range horror movies where you see CGI.

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 thought the marketing was really smart and really clever and unique at the time. It positioned 'Saw' as a horror film that was different from the other horror films that were in the crowded marketplace.

Ask anyone, and they'll tell you that most of the good horror films made in the U.S. are indie films. You might get 'The Ring' or 'The Others,' but most are independently produced.

I actually do like scary movies. I used to hate scary movies. You know, when I was young, I saw 'The Changeling,' with George C. Scott, which I think is the scariest movie ever made. After I saw that, I swore I would never see a horror film again. Then I started making them.

These are films that I really love, but I would say I'm not somebody who runs out to every horror film. I avoid most of them. I feel like a lot of them are made very cynically.

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.

If you have a year where a few good horror films come out, all of the sudden, horror is back and everyone's talking about how it's a vintage year for horror.

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