Sigourney Weaver Quotes

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.

Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in.

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

People's imagination is the most effective tool in creating terror or dread.

Horror, for me, has to involve some sort of fantasy. Horror is something that is in your dreams or your nightmares.

I pretend something scary is in front of me.

I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually have to do, ironically, with powerlessness and isolation.

Dolls, perhaps more than any other object, demonstrate just how thin the line between love and fear, comfort and horror, can be. They are objects of love and sources of reassurance for children, coveted prizes for collectors, sources of terror and horror in numerous movies, television shows, books, and stories.

Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is.

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.

Whether it's via the monstrous or the paranormal, horror actually can really get at some of the most fundamental human questions.

It's fear, Jack. The man deals with a huge amount of fear.' Because he got hurt?' No, not entirely. Fear comes with imagination, it's a penalty, it's the price of imagination.

Write about the thing that frightens you most.

I just gave them a little scare. A touch of psychological terror. As Joseph Conrad once wrote, true terror is the kind that men feel towards their imagination. (from Super-frog Saves Tokyo)

Terror. When you come home and notice everything you own has been taken away and replaced by an exact substitute. It’s when the lights go out and you feel something behind you-you hear it-you feel its breath against your ear, but when you turn around there’s nothing there.

The most terrifying things in the universe came from human minds.

Some men are too dull to feel what might happen. Others torture themselves with maybes and populate their dreams with horrors more terrible than their worst enemy could inflict upon them.

...it is easy not to believe in monsters, considerably more difficult to escape their dread and loathsome clutches.

He felt that the darkness was full of unimaginable horrors - and the trouble with unimaginable horrors was that they were only too easy to imagine.

Sometimes we don't know how afraid we are until we've reached a strange door and we don't know what will be on the other side.

This is the century of fear.

Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

It is the dread of something happening, something unknown and dreadful, that makes us do anything to keep the flicker of talk from dying out.

You dont know what you do, everytime you walk into the room-- I'm afraid to move.

Fear is the emotion that makes us blind.