Bram Stoker Quotes

Blood and death. That moves me.

I have always been into the darker side of things and love the mystery and sexiness of vampires.

I've always been fascinated by horror.

The bathroom door swings open. Emma sees the blood painting my skin and the red rivers carved on my body. Emma sees the wet knife, silver and bone. The screams of my little sister shatter mirrors.

So long as this country is cursed with slavery, so too will it be cursed with vampires.

I'm really kind of a vampire at heart.

Violence is not funny.

Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current.

It's only in modern times that we have come to glorify vampirism.

It makes me actually quite angry to think about people writing about torture with a sort of relish. Horrible.

I like the influence of the macabre, but I don't believe in ghosts.

A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.

Through my mind, is just the horror of these people. I had been held by them, I knew how violent they were.

All I can really say is it's bloodier than hell. In this one I'm going to be much more direct and honest in my description of the actual killings and the crime scene.

I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence.

They promptly tore his fingernails out and he started telling things.

I loved anything spooky, mysterious, or frightening.

Good horror is about so much more than slashing: it's a way of examining grief and loss of self.

Horror itself is such a magical genre.

I want folks to take horror seriously.

Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.

I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.

Usually my form of turning someone down was shoving a stake through his heart while smirking, Gotcha!

Don't Cry Darling, It's Blood All Right

I should probably start with the blood.