Monster Creation Quotes

I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created.

Ive never been a big believer in ghosts or the spirit world, and for me, that was part of the point of the movie, ... What the Ghostbusters represented was the triumph of human courage and human ingenuity. People create their own monsters. Our fears come from within us, not outside.

We create monsters and then we can't control them.

Successful parties create their own monsters.

I am not the same man you found that day! The monster you've created has returned, to kill you!

It's their skins I'm peeling," she said. "The skins of the insipid scribblers, which I graft to the page, creating monsters of meaninglessness.

Once upon a time, a girl lived in a sandcastle, making monsters to send through a hole in the sky.

It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality

I grew up as a little 4- and 5-year-old kid, watching Phil Tippett and my dad make monsters in our garage. That's what I did, as a child.

My candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open.

When I stage a violent scene, I try for it to serve a purpose. I do love those things, the makeup effects. But I love them more with the monsters. I never was much of a gore guy. I've always enjoyed just creating monsters.

Monsters have always been built in this sport. I just don't believe the hype. You've got to show me.

Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?

I had to fight to put my socks on. That's why I'm a great fighter. My brothers and sisters didn't realize they were creating a monster. And then that monster made it to the Hall of Fame.

The premiere of Lynne Ramsay's film of 'We Need To Talk About Kevin' at the Cannes film festival provides an apt juncture at which to celebrate the miraculous power - not of film but of fiction. Lo, I have created a monster.

I think world creation and monster creation and all of that stuff is exciting as a secondary element of storytelling. When it becomes more important than storytelling, I get very nervous, and you sort of lose me a little bit.

There aren't that many monsters. It's very hard to create a new monster.

Writing monsters is fun, and it's easy. When I want one, I just reach under the bed and pull it out, kicking and screaming.

The idea of a Frankenstein-like creature is something I've done several times. It's such an icon of the horror scene.

Some have said that 'Frankenstein' is a story of a bad parenting giving rise to a troubled child.

This is what I do for fun - brainstorm about monsters!

Anytime you make a person into something other than himself, you make a monster.

Most of my monsters fail altogether to satisfy my sense of the cosmic - the abnormally chromatic entity in The Colour Out of Space being the only one of the lot which I take any pride in.

I can understand the idea that there is a conspiracy. In fact, in much of the world there is a sense of an ultra-powerful CIA manipulating everything that happens, such as running the Arab Spring, running the Pakistani Taliban, etc. That is just nonsense. They [CIA] created a monster and now they are appalled by it.

When you traffic in monsters, that's the risk you run, that you'll find one too monstrous to stomach.