Stephen Graham Jones Quotes

It's funny, I can sit through the worst horror film ever made but even a quite good romantic comedy can drive me nuts.

When you're watching Psycho, there' s that moment when you have a visceral reaction to watching someone being stabbed. And then you have the intellectual revelation that you're not, and that's where the celebration comes in.

The horror genre is real cathartic. It allows us to bring out the things that scare us and get it out and have an emotional release.

The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass.

I'm always jumping in my seat or gasping during a good horror movie.

I think most people, even if they say they hate horror movies, there's that feeling you get inside that you love. I mean, I love it. I love to have the hairs on the back of my neck stand up or get that chill up my spine.

The nice thing about a horror movie is that people go in looking to be unsettled.

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.

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

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.

I would love to do some crazy action or even a real romantic comedy. I think that would be really exciting.

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 recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud.

I saw Redeye, and I love being scared and on the edge of my seat.

I love horror, I love scary movies, I love thrillers. If things creep you out and spook you? I love it.

Horror movies are all about getting your attention; you always have to be on guard. People love to be on the edge - there's nothing like a surprise.

When I was a kid, I read books that made me laugh but also made me shiver in terror. I wanted to make books that made other people feel the same way.

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.

I just love scary stuff! I'm a huge horror buff.

People love to get scared. People want to see the worst thing that can happen.

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

The horror genre is important because it promotes experimentation in filmmaking.

Ironically, I wouldn't say I'm a massive horror fan. I love thrillers.

I love the first hour of a horror movie, the fear and anticipation. Then, when it gets bloody, I lose interest.

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.