Lydia Hearst Quotes

I have a complicated relationship with the horror genre. I love it; I loved it as a kid growing up, and I watched Chiller Theater in New York. So I loved it, but then you do feel if you do it too much, you're stuck there.

I've always been fascinated by horror.

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

I just love scary stuff! I'm a huge horror buff.

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.

I like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy.

I've been reading horror since I was five years old.

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

I'm attracted to things that scare me, like 'Psycho,' my favorite Hitchcock movie.

For me, I would say that horror is my absolute favorite form of entertainment.

Horror itself is such a magical genre.

I want folks to take horror seriously.

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

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.

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

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.

I started out with almost entirely black fans except for a little handful of people in the horror writers' community, and those people really liked horror, you know. They will go to any lengths and read whomever they can find because they like that feeling of being scared.

I tell you, I feel like a real novice as far as horror goes.

I'm a huge horror fan.

People like scary stories. There's a fascination with fear themes, and we want to face those things in a weird, subconscious way.

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.

For me, horror movies are a real escape.

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.

Well, don't tell Steve Niles but I just don't think horror works in comics.