Monster Movies Quotes

'Pacific Rim,' for me, was a chance to touch on those old Toho monster movies. 'Godzilla' and 'Rodan'... and then 'Ultraman' and 'Robotech' and all those kinds of things.

Godzilla. The big, green G-man has had a profound influence on my creative endeavors and imagination since I was blueberry-avoiding kid.

When I was old enough to go to movies alone, I got to see 'Frankenstein' and 'Dracula' on the big screen. I just fell in love with them.

When I was 12, I had a fondness for horror movies like the 'Wolfman.' The boy next door said I should read Poe.

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.

I love scary movies. I like blood and gore, and I love Halloween movies.

So many people of my generation all grew up with that shock theater package on television of 'Frankenstein,' 'Wolfman,' 'Dracula,' 'Mummy,' all the Universal stuff.

Really interesting genre films, especially monster movies, evoke the fears of the times intentionally. Our starting point was 'Godzilla' - the original movie was released less than 10 years after Hiroshima, and it's a classic in Japan.

I think people would be most surprised to know that I love scary movies.

When I was a little girl, I used to watch a lot of monster movies, like 'Godzilla.' All those monster movies.

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.

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

I've always liked monster movies and I've always been fascinated by - again, growing up in a culture where death was looked upon as a dark subject and living so close to Mexico where you see the Day of the Dead with the skeletons and it's all humor and music and dancing and a celebration of life in a way. That always felt more of a positive approach to things. I think I always responded to that more than this dark, unspoken cloud in the environment I grew up in.

As far as film goes, I enjoy all Hollywood films and all Horror films like The Bride of Frankenstein, which also might be my favorite. I like 60's and 70's Italian and Spanish Horror films.

If you were around when 'Them!' or 'Tarantula' came out, those effects were as good as you had ever seen.

The first movie that I saw was Godzilla and I loved it.

I'm not necessarily a horror fan. I just never really watched them that much.

I was never interested in being a rock star. I always wanted to be Boris Karloff.

In the second half of primary school, I liked live-action shows and giant-monster movies, and then in junior high, I got into regular movies.

Everybody already knows what Godzilla is.

I've never been into monster movies, not my cup of tea.

When I was a child, I thought I was going to be a paleontologist because I loved dinosaurs. I loved monster movies and sci-fi, and then 'Star Wars' came out, and I was completely out of my mind with that, with 'Close Encounters,' and then I thought maybe I was going to go into special effects makeup, which I thought was awesome.

I really love scary movies, so I'm all about Halloween.

I love horror films. I love ghost movies and haunted-house movies.

I love New York. It just reminds me of so many movies... I look up at buildings, and feel like Godzilla should be climbing up them or something.