Arca Quotes

A good horror movie should have peaks and valleys, a good horror movie should move you emotionally; a good horror movie should be exciting to watch and energizing in a weird kind of way.

We need horror stories for people to focus on.

In some ways, the audience becomes complacent when they go to a horror film. And so it's fun to take that attitude and then to upend it.

When someone throws up while watching one of your movies, it's like a standing ovation.

In 'Clockwork Orange,' you're there with your eyes, watching all those things, your brain goes off, ahh, exposes you to so many things, and at the end of the day, it's just like a roller coaster. Why do you jump in a roller coaster? You want a thrill.

I love discordancy. It makes people ill at ease and wakes up a part of their brain that's normally asleep.

There's not a moment on it that will sound too familiar, as soon as it sounds comfortably familiar then we like to do something with it to take away that comfortable feeling.

Are you trying to manipulate me? It's working.

The game embarrasses you until you feel inadequate.

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

Can you design a Rorschach test that's going to make everyone feel something every time - and that looks like a Rorschach test? It's easy to show a picture of a kitten or a car accident. The question is, how abstract can you get and still get the audience to feel something when they don't know what's happening to them?

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

If something is shocking without being funny it's hard to justify.

An emotion is suggested and demolished in one glance by certain words.

It's always fun to make people laugh, and then make them afraid or cry at the same time.

When they tested Fatal Attraction, the audiences were so upset by her behavior, they literally demanded her blood.

The purpose of making people feel uncomfortable is to play with their preconceptions.

The thing that scares us the most is when familiar things operate in unfamiliar ways.

When there's change, people are always anxious.

People aren't expecting me to look how I do. But that's one of the main reasons it works so well: the surprise factor.

You get an audience to laugh and then show them something horrific, it's going to be even more horrific because they've had the release of the laugh before it.

Dead silence is so much more foreign to me than people screaming at me, good or bad.

I like to challenge the audience. I want people to feel discomfort.

I'm always shocked by what people react to.

Without psychology, the horror film doesn't exist.