Leigh Whannell Quotes

In a great horror movie, you've gotta have some character development and you've gotta set some of your people up and you've gotta have a little back story going. You've gotta take that time for exposition.

I love horror comedies, and I love horror movies. In particular, I love horror movies from the '80s that have practical monsters in them. They're not just slasher movies with people going to kill people in people's houses. I do like these ridiculous monster movies. They're scary, but they're absurd. I had a lot of fun in my 20's, watching a lot of these movies late at night.

Horror movies are hard work. Why don't we make a horror workout?

I really did Regression to work with Alejandro [Amenabar]. I found him very interesting. His movie, The Others, is one of the better scary movies of the last period of time.

I'm not really into horror movies.

Horror is great storytelling with scary elements on top of it, but if you don't have great storytelling, you can have all the scares in the world, but the movie won't work.

I definitely love horror movies and all that for sure.

Horror has been very good to me in my career. Doing horror films is for the fans and helps keep that part of my career alive.

I love horror movies, so it's a real treat to be able to work on a television show of that genre, and have it actually be really, really good.

I loved horror since I was a kid.

I really liked The Children of Corn, believe it or not. And Rosemary's Baby - yeah, exactly. I've always loved it. Any time a new horror film comes out that looks appealing, I'm always excited to go see it.

I don't care about the genre so much. I'm good with horror, but I like other genres, too.

I've seen a lot of movies that were great and scary, but not particularly fancy in their filmmaking or performance. And they're still scary, and I think a good horror movie should be scary above all things.

I like movies like 'Mother's Day', where you watch it, and you've liked it for years as a horror movie.

What I like is horror movies, including '80s slasher movies that politically I have all kinds of problems with. Which is an interesting balance, because I have this leftist puritan strain that, well, if you like something that goes against your politics, maybe you should train yourself not to like it. But I know that I like horror movies and that's what I watch when I get a moment.

I came to terms with living mostly in a world of horror pictures or genre pictures.

I'm a huge fan of the horror genre and the supernatural elements.

Certainly, black horror movie fans have, you know, been particularly vocal. I mean, there's the whole Eddie Murphy routine about, you know, black people in a horror movie wouldn't last very long. Right? They just walk in - you hear get out. Too bad we can't stay, baby.

The horror genre is fun but I'm not sure it is quite right for me.

I thought it was great fun to scare people. I also knew it was socially acceptable because there were a lot of horror movies out there.

I love movies that have that resonating scare, that really get under your skin and make you think.

My understanding of zombie movies is people rising from the dead, from their graves, stuff like that, and walking very slowly.

There's a lot that I watch over and over. But I have to say, because of my line of work as a horror-movie hostess, I've probably seen Night Of The Living Dead more than any movie. I've probably seen it more than George A. Romero.

I like horror movies. Nightmare on Elm Street is my favourite. I even get scared a little bit watching horror.

In the horror genre, unfortunately you sometimes have the studio tell you, "No, go with more unknown people because it's a scary movie," and I disagree.