Kate Leth Quotes

I'm a huge 'Nightmare before Christmas' fan, but that was also Henry Selick. I'm a really big fan of 'Sleepy Hollow.' I love 'Big Fish,' too, which is a bit different. There's a really cool era of early-Burton stuff like 'Ed Wood' that I'm a big fan of.

I'm an enormous Tim Burton fan.

Gothic in its purest sense is actually a very powerful, twisted genre, but the way it was being used by by journalists - 'goff' with a double f - always seemed to me to be about tacky, harum-scarum horror, and I find that anything but scary. That wasn't what we were about at all.

I am drawn to Americana, and I am drawn to gothic stories, and I love American gothic stories.

For me, Gothic is something from my youth, when I had a heavy metal phase.

I became a horror fan during the early 1960s, back when Hammer was putting out their groundbreaking 'Dracula' series with Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, and grew up watching 'Dark Shadows.'

Tim Burton, let's face it: he's into stitches.

'The Nightmare Before Christmas' is my number one biggest influence artistically in every way.

Mention the gothic, and many readers will probably picture gloomy castles and an assortment of sinister Victoriana. However, the truth is that the gothic genre has continued to flourish and evolve since the days of Bram Stoker, producing some of its most interesting and accomplished examples in the 20th century - in literature, film and beyond.

Certainly Dracula did bring a hell of a lot of joy to a hell of a lot of women. And if this erotic quality hadn't come out we'd have been very disappointed.

'Dark Shadows' was the spark that lit the fire of my childhood imagination. It wasn't polished; it wasn't perfect. But it gave us characters with real personalities and complicated motivations.

I was a million percent in love with Edward Scissorhands. I remember looking in the mirror on the last day of shooting... and thinking how sad I was to be saying goodbye to Edward.

I tried to be a goth for a while. I'd pour baby powder on my face and paint my lips black, but that didn't last long. I thought I looked cool at the time. But then you look back and wonder, 'Why did anyone let me out of the house looking like that?'

There was a perverse side of me, with things like Van Helsing coming out. I didn't want to go down that route.

'Beetlejuice' used to scare me.

At some point in my life, I wanted to be in a vampire movie.

I think mainly my devotion to horror comes from international horror movies and literature.

My favorite vampire movie used to be Bram Stoker's 'Dracula,' but now '30 Days of Night' took its place. I think it's brilliant that somebody would be so thoughtful as to put these vampires in a place like Barrow, Alaska, where there are actually '30 Days of Night.'

I had a wonderful time making 'Dark Shadows.'

I love all that kind of gothic Bram Stoker kind of thing. I love to get lost in that kind of escapism.

When I was 12, I had a fondness for horror movies like the 'Wolfman.' The boy next door said I should read Poe.

I find inspiration in the movies I've loved, especially all films ever made about Dracula.

You can only maintain an immensely gothic attitude for so long before either killing yourself or beginning to feel like a poser.

'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.

I'm a big fan of Brian De Palma's 'Sisters,' and I also love 'Let The Right One In.'