Fear Enjoyment Quotes

I prefer to be scared in a way that a 12-year-old would want to be.

I love horror movies. I mean, who doesn't like a good horror movie every once in a while? It's fun to get scared.

When I was a kid I used to get fun out of my horrors.

I love getting scared. I find myself putting myself in situations like haunted houses or going to a haunted hospital for my birthday. Yes, I've actually done that.

When I was a little kid, I loved horror films. I always liked being scared.

Scary is good. Kids like going to a movie and being really scared rather than fake scared.

I just suddenly thought, people really get off on being scared. They pay money to see green foam come out of people's mouths.

I had a connoisseur's... appreciation of fear.

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.

Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.

I'm a big fan of being scared I like being scared. I like being involved in a film that will make audiences scared, that intrigues me.

I love horror films, but it's more than an adrenaline rush for me. I love them because I know they scare me. It's kind of like I go on roller coasters, but I'm terrified of roller coasters, sort of thing.

I think most people, even if they say they hate horror movies, there's that feeling you get inside that you love. I mean, I love it. I love to have the hairs on the back of my neck stand up or get that chill up my spine.

And I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it.

People love being scared, even for long periods of time.

I don't like the slasher stuff, myself, but I do like the psychological horror of Roman Polanski and that world. But, it's curious to me why people do like to be afraid.

There's something really fun about being scared, and I guess that was at least part of why I wanted to film certain scenes from my new book, 'Skeleton Creek.'

As much as they deny it, I think people want to be scared. It's a phenomenon, why people want to be scared when there is so much violence and craziness in the world. People still really enjoy being scared. It's a conundrum to me. It's hard to explain. It's an unconscious thing, really, why people like that so much.

I grew up watching horror films from a very young age. My sister was never able to watch scary movies; I don't think she'll ever watch mine because she's just so bad at it. Its funny because I'm the complete opposite: I love to be scared. I love to have that fear before you go to bed, and you're like, 'Oh my God, please, nothing come out.'

I like it when a movie scares the s - t out of me. That, for me, is just the best.

There is something so fun about scaring yourself.

I like old school horror movies like Exorcist. I always loved scaring myself and I don't know at all what that's about.

How are we to account for the strange human craving for the pleasure of feeling afraid which is so much involved in our love of ghost stories?

What a great unifier getting scared is. Not in an actual threatening, real-world way, but getting scared from horror movies or haunted houses or ghost stories. You laugh because it's a release. People laugh when they're nervous. I laugh so much at a haunted house. It's out of fear, but it's also a wonderful release. Getting scared like that, you feel good, and you feel exhilarated afterwards.