Lauren Ashley Carter Quotes

I have a complicated relationship with the horror genre. I love it; I loved it as a kid growing up, and I watched Chiller Theater in New York. So I loved it, but then you do feel if you do it too much, you're stuck there.

Horror will always be there, it always comes back, it's a familiar genre that some people, not everyone - it's sort of the cinema anchovies. You either like it or you don't.

We need horror stories for people to focus on.

Horror itself is such a magical genre.

When horror is about something - capital-A about - that's when it's really landing.

I want folks to take horror seriously.

I think horror should never be safe, whether it's violent or non violent.

I loved ghost stories. I love horror stories. I love all of that stuff, but I really yearn for something to actually frighten me. It's more of a yearning for that than something that has to necessarily be cerebral or sophisticated. Good storytelling and something that actually frightens you.

The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from everyday life.

I've always been fascinated by horror.

For horror, the needs of the story have to be first.

The closer a horror story gets to the truth of things, the more affective it is going to be.

I have a long, complicated history with horror.

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

Horror is a totally different animal. It's intense. You can do drama or comedies, but in horror, you really have to trick yourself into believing a lot of unbelievable phenomena.

Well, don't tell Steve Niles but I just don't think horror works in comics.

Horror fans need horror, okay? They don't need little worms squirming around going down your throat. To them, that's not horror.

Horror is about dreams and heightened states. It really is about taking away the logic on some level and getting right to the emotion of something.

Horror films are very effective to me; they have an impact on me. I think that real life things scare me a lot more.

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

For me, I would say that horror is my absolute favorite form of entertainment.

I think if a horror movie is really scary, you'll think about it for weeks, and there's something kind of fun about that - about our art, really.

Since I was a kid, I've had this morbid fascination with dark and scary subject matter.

I guess the reason that I'm a horror fan is that I think it gives people the opportunity to enjoy the feeling of being scared in a safe environment. I think that's why, for all of human history, we've been telling each other scary stories: because it exorcises something that we need to exorcise in a safe place.

Horror isn't only about ghosts or monsters. For example, paranormal romance seems the antithesis of horror. Once you have a sexy, fun vampire who is sweet, and you have a happy ending, it's not horror.