Clive Barker Quotes

Critics tend to be very hard on the horror genre.

If you make just hardcore horror, there's a limited audience for that. Whereas if it's horror mixed with action, I think you kinda broaden your potential fanbase.

Really interesting genre films, especially monster movies, evoke the fears of the times intentionally.

The first horror film I remember seeing in the theatre was Halloween and from the first scene when the kid puts on the mask and it is his POV, I was hooked.

I am very, very anti-slasher.

I do genre films because I like them or because I need the money. I make a star's salary when I do horror because I can still open a movie in Italy or Spain or Germany.

When you're promoting a film it's really interesting trying to gauge what people think about it.

I'm always a fan of a good horror film.

I've never really liked horror films.

It's not a monster movie. It's a supernatural thriller.

I kind of grew up on horror.

I want to start off making the kinds of films that I loved growing up as a kid. Fun horror films that are scary but at the same time, after you finish the movie, it leaves you excited to see more.

I thought the marketing was really smart and really clever and unique at the time. It positioned 'Saw' as a horror film that was different from the other horror films that were in the crowded marketplace.

You should not do everything in your power to make reviewers cranky before - right before they see your movie.

I think, specifically with the horror genre, you have to make it very believable because it can come across ridiculous.

I would love to do more horror films.

'Insidious' is independent. It's like the 'Clerks' of horror films, you know?

The worst thing you can do after a test screening is slash it for the lowest common denominator.

'Insidious 2' is a direct continuation of the first movie. We literally pick up from where we left off at the end of the first film. And whereas the first movie is a twist on the haunted house genre, the second movie is a twist on the classic domestic thriller.

In 'Crush,' it still has a lot of elements of other genres, and then the horror is layered on top of it, especially towards the end.

I've never done a horror movie, like a full-on gore slasher film.

I will never make a film where zombies are threatening to take over the planet.

I love scary movies and respect the filmmakers of scary movies, and it's just as hard to make a great scary movie as it is to make a great comedy or drama or anything else.

Nobody cares for the product I, and a host of other horror directors, make.

There are a lot of horror films out there that are nasty, but what's nasty isn't necessarily scary.