Sara Shepard Quotes

I just don't like getting scared, like when people hide and jump out of places. That totally freaks me out. I'm not a fan of it.

I enjoy scaring people.

Anytime anybody jumps out at me, I scream.

When I die of heart failure the next time you frighten me like that, you can put that on my gravestone —‘I didn’t mean to startle her

A good horror movie - it doesn't matter how many comedy horror films there have been before. Doesn't matter how much you think it's going to be funny. A good horror movie will scare the hell out of you... the moment you sit down and you start being exposed to that story, it's going to freeze your blood.

The last thing that scared me... it was probably something stupid, like when someone jumped out at me, or I thought my new dog had gone to the toilet underneath my piano. Lots of silly things.

I think for a horror experience to be really scary, something has to be a bit of a shock and a surprise. It's like something you've never experienced before.

He -it- was a specter! I stepped back, stunned.

No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.

It's nice to see that look of alarm on the faces of the others.

Number one is that it just scares people! Your hair is standing up on your arms, or at least that there's a few moments when you're jumping. That's what makes it a good horror movie.

I don't like to get scared - it's not one of the emotions I enjoy. So I have to assume that if there are scary things in my books, they aren't very scary.

Gory stuff can be shocking but it doesn't really scare me. I'd say the kind of stuff that gets under my skin is the unknown. You hear a knock behind a wall and you don't know what it is. Is there something there or not?

I tell you, I feel like a real novice as far as horror goes.

People want to be disturbed when they go see a horror movie.

I've only seen a couple horror movies in my lifetime. I don't like the ones that make you scream out in terror.

I feel happy to terrify kids.

Most horror films fail to scare me.

I never thought they would come

I've always felt that there's a lot of similarity between doing a comedy and doing a scary movie because jokes and scares are all about timing. If you give the punch line too early or too late, the joke falls flat. And it's the same with a scare.

I don't want you leaving laughing, I want to leave you shaking. That to me is true horror.

Norman Bates heard the noise and a shock went through him.

My God. What's happened?

I started violently, as if some unseen hand had goosed me.

No matter that you anticipate a thing; you get so used to it as part of the future that its actuality, its arrival, its force and presence, startles you, takes you by surprise, as would a ghost suddenly appearing in the room wearing familiar perfume and boots.