Mark Gatiss Quotes

I kind of realize that I have a tendency to choose the kind of films I watched when I was a kid and would go home and pretend with my friends that we were in those movies after we saw them.

What's the shelf life of a 1931 movie? If it still exists, there will always be film buffs and a niche audience who will want to see it. But in terms of people even understanding in common usage, some of the words we use to describe these movies, I don't know how long that's going to last.

When I was a kid, my favorite movies were the George Pal version of 'War Of The Worlds,' 'Them,' and 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers.' Those movies were scary! They haunted my nightmares for years, so when I started writing, I wanted to write a story that was just as big and just as scary.

'Beloved.' That's an amazing film and I'm sorry more people didn't see it when it came out.

I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies.

I'm never interested in movies where you don't care about the people you're watching, and that's my biggest quibble about horror, that kids have gotten stupider and stupider.

I've always loved film, and it started with Pixar movies.

I grew up in New York, so I had a lot of access to all kinds of movies, and I would handwrite reviews of them on loose-leaf paper.

When I was younger, I used to watch all the black-and-white 'Dracula's and 'Frankenstein's.

My mom gave me 'Anne of Green Gables' as a present so that was my first introduction to Anne, little did I know.

I like movies like 'Mother's Day', where you watch it, and you've liked it for years as a horror movie.

I grew up watching 'Gigi.' My grandmother had it, and I watched it there.

I saw 'A Night at the Opera,' this Marx Brothers film, when I was, like, six years old. I just became obsessed, you know?

I grew up watching 'The Ring,' 'The Grudge,' all those scary movies.

When I was a child, my father would read out loud to my brother, my mother, and me. Several times in the course of my childhood, he would read 'Alice and Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking Glass' over a few weeks. They were a great favorite with all of us.

Every weekend from, like, 1974 to 1978, I'd trudge over to the Greenwich library, which gathered up almost every major newspaper in the country. I would sit there all day long and read and read and read the reviews. I remember being twelve or thirteen and writing to Judith Crist, Pauline Kael, and Roger Ebert.

The book that meant most to me was 'The Wind in the Willows.' It sounds ridiculous, but that was my vision of England.

I'm a horror movie fan; I'm an avid fan and have been since I was five years old. My father and I watched horror movies, so this is a genre that is very close and very important to me.

'Airplane' was my favorite movie growing up.

I really love movies! I have seen so many, I can't say my favourite one.

I wasn't a film buff.

Call Me On The Ouija Board' is homage not just to horror movies involving children, but my favorites as a child.

For many different reasons, my number one favorite horror movie is 'Halloween II.' I love the way it's shot, and I love the way the synthesizer sounds on the score.

The Dumas memoirs - which I also discovered when I was a kid - had a big impact on me.

I've been a horror fan pretty much in the sense that my sense of horror and my sense of humor were both equally kindled by films as a kid.