Dele Alli Quotes

I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.

Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes one's fear, but the human being who has contact with it.

Though I've been in horror movies, I just can't watch them. The first time I watched a 'Harry Potter' movie, I had nightmares for, like, two weeks.

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

There is an element of anger among women who've been raped. There's certainly a major element of humiliation. But it really does seem like a medical condition of shock and horror.

You have to understand that PTSD has to be an event that you experience, a very traumatic event. And actually, there is evidence that brain chemistry changes during this event in certain individuals where it's imprinted indelibly forever and there's an emotion associated with this which triggers the condition.

As crime writers, we put these characters, year after year, book after book, through the most horrendous trauma, dealing with grief and death and loss and violence. We can't pretend that these things don't affect these characters; they have to. If they don't, then you're essentially writing cartoons.

You can watch 'Dawn of the Dead' and still sleep at night. Try that with 'The Day After'.

The shock of any trauma, I think changes your life. It's more acute in the beginning and after a little time you settle back to what you were. However it leaves an indelible mark on your psyche.

Just as the body goes into shock after a physical trauma, so does the human psyche go into shock after the impact of a major loss.

To imagine that trauma casts out fantasy is a dangerous mistake.

People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure

Sometimes history reads like a catalogue of post-traumatic stress.

I think sometimes you go through an experience, and you don't feel the impact, especially in a war experience, until way past it.

Shower scenes are great. Janet Leigh never took a shower again in her life after 'Psycho'.

He that has been bitten by a snake is afraid of a rope.

My sister and I had jointly heard the narration of 'Revolver Rani' in Tigmanshu Dhulia's office. After hearing the narration, my sister was very scared and adamant that I should not do this film, as my character was twisted, neurotic, violent and abusive.

For me, 'The Haunting of Hill House' is a series about life after a haunting, what happens after the credits roll in most horror films.

Fear comes from your past observations. That fear settles inside you. It becomes your psyche. Something triggers it and it fuels that subconscious. There is no logic to it.

David Lynch's 'Fire Walk With Me' has a scene in it that scared me so bad that I don't remember it. I blocked the memory out - repeatedly! I've seen the film two or three times, and I can never remember what it is that scares me.

I was scarred in 1977 by watching Jaws, and I've never got over it.

When I was finally allowed to watch horror in my early teens I think I overdid it, I actually ended up generating some kind of low grade PTSD, I was paranoid and scared of our house being broken into. It actually took me a long time to get over that.

I loved working on 'Dogfight,' but when I first read it and wrapped my head around the story, I was a little horrified.

I think what happens is when you have fear, fear translates into hatred.

Fear-bola attacks the part of the brain responsible for rational thinking. It starts with a low-grade concern about the two health care workers diagnosed with Ebola in Dallas and slowly builds into fear of a widespread epidemic in the United States.