Michael Haneke Quotes

I tried the second season of 'American Horror Story,' and it scared me horribly. I guess I prefer my own imagination to a realized visual.

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

It's the idea that anticipation is as scary as anything in a movie could be. People's imagination is the most effective tool in creating terror or dread.

A viewer's imagination is a powerful storyteller, and can often come up with things way more frightening than what you can explicitly show in a horror movie... try to engage that imagination, and the results can be magical.

Our imagination often is more horrifying than being shown something.

I think in the old days, films really went for the shock, with the blood and guts, but movies are getting better. The writing and directing have improved a lot, because the audience demands it.

I love 'Paranormal Activity' and 'The Exorcist.' 'The Shining' is a great one too, but there's not a lot that scares me. Maybe it's because I know the other side of it, and I know how movies are made, but it takes a lot for me to get freaked out.

I don't watch scary movies. Sometimes, even having to read the script and do an episode of 'Grimm,' I get a little tense because I know someone's going to jump out of somewhere.

I'm a guy who likes to watch something cool, creepy and suspenseful and there is no show to watch as an adult that would scare me at for even four seconds.

For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness.

Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like 'The Grudge', I look in the corners of my room for the next two days.

Every two weeks on 'Doctor Who,' the set is completely different, the world is different and there are new actors coming in. So, it's constantly surprising, and it's a pressure that you relish, actually.

Growing up I always loved films that transport you to another world and has things you never see in every day life.

I am pretty scare-able. I guess that is why I like doing horror because my imagination can take me places.

In many cases your imagination is much more effective than what can be shown. It primes you to know something is about to happen - the anticipation and anxiety is worse than what ends up happening.

It's not scary to make a horror film because you get to pull back the curtain and see that none of it's real. When you're watching one, the terror bombards you.

The general effect of viewing 'Jumanji' is thrilling. I was able to see on film a thing that at one point had only existed in my imagination. I got to see the images from my book come alive.

Monsters are a storytelling tool, like domestic realism and close third.

I am a fairytale person and firmly believe that movies are made to entertain.

I grew up on Edgar Allen Poe, and I loved Alfred Hitchcock's movies.

I love horror because you can never just sit back in your seat. You always have to be on the edge of it.

I get sent horror scripts every week and most of them are putrid. A lot of people think it's an easy medium but it's not. Not if you want to make ones that last.

I'll continue doing horror until the day I die. I love it; it's so much fun.

'Jurassic Park' is probably the movie that got me wanting to make movies. It's fun, but it's not totally gruesome.

The ghost story is a popular genre of mine and is particularly adaptable to the visual media.