"I have a horror of sunsets; they're so romantic, so operatic."
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"Terror is the desire to save your own ass, but horror is rooted in sympathy."
"I am your number one fan."
"You are horror and beauty in rare combination."
"For me, the social thriller is the thriller in which the fears, the horrors, and the thrills are coming from society. They're coming from the way humans interact."
"Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality."
"You know, the best thing you can say about a horror film is, 'Don't see it.'"
"I think horror should never be safe, whether it's violent or non violent."
"I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror."
"Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty."
"I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century."
"Abandon all remorse; On horror's head horrors accumulate."
"Young adults that actually read are reading bodice rippers and best-sellers and me. And Horror."
"I'm an enormous admirer of Christopher Lee. He's somebody, along with Vincent Price, who I celebrate, and I wanted my movies to show that celebration and that honoring of these great film stars that were unafraid to go into horror and Grand Guignol and the macabre."
"But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong."
"What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?"
"I didn't want to be known as a man who only made horror films. I made some - very few."
"The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable"
"I'm a fan of horror movies that have really good stories."
"Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror."