Oren Peli Quotes

Not knowing the thing that's chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you.

I don't have control over what's on screen, and that's terrifying.

Once you know how completely and suddenly the earth can open up at your feet and the worst can happen, it also, paradoxically, leaves you more afraid of everything else.

I'm always surprised to rediscover that there's something kind of scary about life; and that the feeling we have that we're in charge is probably ill founded.

It's inevitable that you feel scared when you don't have control of a situation.

Life is a very scary thing because it's unknown. Anything can happen anytime, and that is terrifying for all of us: to not to be in control.

And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change.

it's doors I'm afraid of because I can't see through them, its the door opening by itself in the wind I'm afraid of.

But, I'm kind of a control freak. I get really freaked out if I don't know what's going on and what's going to happen.

I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability - the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed at all. I wait for catastrophes.

I felt vulnerable and very much between friends. I remember walking down the hallway and thinking I had no way of knowing what was coming, literally. This wasn't because I had some horrific bullying story, but because of a steady drip of negativity.

I'm terrified to go in lakes because you can't see the bottom, and not knowing what's there watching you is really scary to me.

I'm not sure I always feel like I'm in the seat. Sometimes I'm only holding on by one hand and flying out behind the roller coaster. I don't know anybody who doesn't feel that way.

I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on.

Hemingway has expressed with genius the terrors of the modern man at the danger of losing control of his world

Marriage is scary to me, man.

The world is enormously dangerous and scary. I worry very much for my daughter. I'm not sure we're in control any more, and I think the Internet is partly responsible for that.

The world's my oyster. But it worries me, all this showing off about being happy. Life is so precarious, and I know terrible things can happen. At the moment, everything is happy.

I'm scared of things that I can't see that can hurt me, you know.

I'm a firm believer that what you don't see is always scarier than what you do.

I'm afraid to go to sleep; I don't like to lose control of myself. I don't like chauffeurs, either. I like to be in charge of my own destiny.

I've lost a lot of control in my life.

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown.

I’m afraid to close my eyes, I’m afraid to open them

Any person with any imagination is bound to be afraid.