Takashi Miike Quotes

I love horror movies. I mean, who doesn't like a good horror movie every once in a while? It's fun to get scared.

If I'm really honest, I'm not a huge fan of scary films.

Fear has disappeared. No more fear. In Asia, it is different. They've discovered again the fear and the psychology of the characters. Without psychology, the horror film doesn't exist.

I've been into horror movies ever since I was five years old.

I love scary movies. I like blood and gore, and I love Halloween movies.

The only thing I find difficult to watch - horror movies - not that I don't like them. Like 'The Shining,' it's one of my favorite movies, but it's terrifying. I feel like I've watched a marathon afterwards.

I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.

I've never been a big gore guy.

Yeah, I do like scary movies, especially the ones that don't take themselves too seriously.

I didn't watch horror movies when I was a kid. I didn't watch any bad movies.

Scaring someone's the hardest thing to do, and that's why most of these scary movies are not scary. They're sick, but not scary. There's a lot of sickness out there, of people who then sit there and watch it, which I think is absolutely dismaying.

I don't see scary movies. I've never seen 'The Exorcist' or 'Jaws'.

I think people would be most surprised to know that I love scary movies.

People who have passion for horror stories, their appreciation/my appreciation is looking at it as opera.

I think that true horror is accomplished by slowly getting into your brain. The old way is much more scary.

PG-13 horror, I just don't watch that.

I love horror movies.

I knew the name; I knew who Leatherface was. But I hadn't seen any of the films, mostly because I'm a scaredy-cat.

What I would like to do is a thriller. I've been wanting to do that for a long time, but one that was not at all dependent on special effects. Just purely psychological, but will scare the hell out of you. That's what I would like to do. I have not found it yet.

Some horror movies are just for shock value, so it doesn't really feel scary.

I think any director is intimidating.

I have had a lifelong fascination with horror movies, scary movies, how they work.

For me, what usually makes a horror sequence scary is the journey not the destination.

I know what I miss as a cinemagoer is that balance of films that actually scare me; they're so few and far between.

I remember the first horror movie I saw - I was five years old; it was a direct-to-video movie called 'Truth or Dare: a Critical Madness,' which is sort of badly fantastic or fantastically bad. And then 'Gremlins' was an early movie that I saw, and 'Nightmare on Elm Street 3.'