John Lanchester Quotes

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

It's not like I particularly have an interest in creepiness for creepy's sake.

I hate horror movies! I avoid them like the plague. I don't like getting scared.

I am a big scaredy-cat; horror films terrify me.

I guess creepy comes natural to me - I hate to say that.

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.

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.

True horror, I think, deals with dread and menace and gets under your skin.

It's easy for me to write a horror movie about real stuff because my mind is always going there anyway.

I can't speak to what makes people think that I'm scary.

We all are scared of bad things… So when you are watching a film, you see your fears on the screen.

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

I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.

Fear is excitement without breath.

The mark of fear is not easily removed.

Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear.

To make the reader afraid, I had to be afraid.

Public fear isn't something to be played with.

People's imagination is the most effective tool in creating terror or dread.

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

Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.

There is a fascination with fear. It grabs our attention.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

There often is a dark secret in books... There is often a gathering sense of dread; there's a gap sometimes in the text from which all kinds of monsters can emerge.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.