Natalie Martinez Quotes

I discovered the fun of genre is... you get to explore your fears, and you get to use the metaphor of the genre - whether it's a giant monster or a... 12-year-old vampire. Whatever it is, you can sink something underneath the surface and make a personal film under the guise of great fun romp.

I was always a really big fan of R. L. Stine and the 'Goosebumps' T.V. series and the 'Goosebumps' books.

Sci-fi and horror, particularly, allow a storyteller to depart from, let's say, the demands of cinema verite or kitchen-sink realism or, even, just relatable dramas and can go into areas that are either - in the case of horror - more primally effective or, in the case of sci-fi, more speculative or imaginative.

I love horror, fantasy and sci-fi. Those are my genres of love and devotion.

Horror, for me, has to involve some sort of fantasy. Horror is something that is in your dreams or your nightmares.

Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.

I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.

For me personally, I think I just enjoy movies about werewolves or vampires because it's not like an everyday thing. It's something you can really escape into.

I'm a huge fan of science fiction and fantasy - not so much horror because I get a bit scared.

I love horror, mystery, and science fiction, and Poe was one of the founding fathers of those worlds.

I think fantasy thrillers excite audiences as, inherently, people have a fascination for the unknown and the unexplained.

I love crime, I love sci-fi and many other things.

I'm a huge fan of ghost stories, that sort of slow build, the suspense and the questioning about whether you're imagining something or if it's real.

I have always loved reading a little creep-factor and a lot of suspense.

So much of 'Jaws' was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing.

Why a ghost story? Well, I love them. They're fun to read - and, yes, fun to write.

In creating the Harry Potter artwork, I try to bring a certain amount of realism and believability to the characters and setting, but still add an element of wonder and the unknown.

Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current.

I wasn't a big science-fiction fan growing up. But I loved Jules Verne and Sherlock Holmes. Both came into play on 'The X-Files.'

We all like going to the dark side of things; we all like dipping into worlds that we don't know anything about, or hopefully don't know anything about. I think 'Banshee' gives people a chance to do that pretty safely because we all know there's a solid buffer between the show and reality.

I think 'Oz' is the type of show that makes you turn away in fear and in horror, so for a television show, that's pretty intense.

The reason you can take the leap of faith with Stephen King, when it comes to the paranormal, or the things that happen in the world that he creates, is because the characters that he writes are accessible.

The first thriller ever? It was probably one from 1697. It was called 'Little Red Riding Hood.'

That's the kind of TV I like to watch, where you just don't know what's going to happen.

I don't like shows that are predictable. I like it when you're shocked and you have no idea who's about to die.