Hiro Murai Quotes

I tend to fall more into the fun horror genre than the traumatic horror genre. I love the films where you're laughing as much as screaming, but that doesn't mean I don't like the other ones.

Comedy and horror are cousins; they're related. They both come from storytellers who want to specifically affect the audience and elicit specific reactions during the movie.

Growing up, I was a huge fan of horror movies. There's nothing more fun than going into a movie with a smile because you know you're going to be scared to death. There's something thrilling about sitting there waiting for a scare to happen.

Scream was great for what it was. For a horror film, it was intelligent, it was funny, it took a laugh at itself.

I think I've only done one horror movie, Psycho III. That was a walk in the park compared to a romantic comedy.

The stuff I write with Joe Lo Truglio tends to lean towards horror-comedy and horror.

I mean, horror films in general put humans in these awful supernatural or horrible situations, but 'Cabin In The Woods' cranks it up a few notches and becomes outrageous and totally bizarre.

I'm looking at some comedic horror films because I have often been accused of being too dark. I'm not dark, not compared with 'Saw' or anything like that. So I'm looking at live-action horror films, but not slasher ones - ones that have humor and maybe some social satire.

All these horror movies are slasher film now. I like them, they're fun, but they wink at the audience and you're really not terrified through the movie.

I love mixing horror with comedy.

Some horror movies are just for shock value, so it doesn't really feel scary.

Raaz 3' has a human touch and in fact, horror comes in third place. The first is human touch, while music takes the second place.

If I'm going to direct a horror movie, I'd have to be the one writing it, because I have to make it personal.

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.

The most fun part of making a horror movie is watching it with an audience.

I love the idea of comedy in horror. I think this should be allowed.

As a kid, I saw a lot of scary movies, but they were mixed with comedy, like 'Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein.'

In 'Crush,' it still has a lot of elements of other genres, and then the horror is layered on top of it, especially towards the end.

Basically, I'm an EC comic book guy, man. You can show me anything that's high-spirited horror, and I'll be there giggling.

I'm not interested in making horror-comedies, but I'm very interested in making scary movies with funny parts.

I've never done a horror movie, like a full-on gore slasher film.

I love 'Shaun of the Dead.'

One of my favorite things about making horror movies is, the first time you screen them in front of an audience, it's very fun to hear people audibly react to the work you put into a movie. You don't wonder at the end of the movie whether it worked or not.

I think 'Piranha' won't be in the guilty-pleasure category, because it's gonna be - well, yeah, maybe for some people. From what I've seen, it has a sense of humor about itself, and it's also really scary and really, really violent. I would call it a popcorn movie from the planet Popcorn.

My older sister showed me 'Hellraiser' when I was, like, 4, and 'Friday the 13th.' She kind of scarred me, but I like watching scary movies with people because you're together in this scary situation. It makes all that more fun.