Matt Reeves Quotes

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear.

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

I pretend something scary is in front of me.

There is no worse emotion than fear.

The horror of it is, every goddamn thing you look at seems pretty scary to me.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

Fear works. It is more effective than any drug, tactic, or torture device.

Fear creates fear.

Horror of any kind is dependent on a certain amount of insecurity and paranoia from the audience. And it feeds on that and works on that.

Fear is the highest fence.

The mark of fear is not easily removed.

I can scare myself like a pro.

I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud.

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

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Fear has been good to yours truly.

Few things focus the mind like fear.

Horror can be contained within a book, given form and meaning. But in life, horror has no more form than it does meaning. Horror just is.

The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.

I have this almost pathological fear of boring the reader.

Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.

To him who is in fear everything rustles.

Fear is really powerful; it's really useful to me.