"I grew up on genre - on Westerns, spy thrillers, sci-fi, fantasy novels, horror novels. Especially horror novels."
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"A really good horror film has a story."
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"To me Polanski is one of the greats in terms of psychological horror. It's just hard to top him because he's so damn good at it."
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"The beauty of being an actor in a horror film is that you know what to expect and what's coming."
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"It's in the public domain. That's one of the reasons I do it so much. But luckily, it's a brilliant film [ Night Of The Living Dead]. Every horror aficionado must see that film at least once."
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"the people are the biggest horror show on earth, have been for centuries."
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"I am very happy making lower budgeted horror movies."
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"You have to take the horror seriously but there's gags aplenty. Most people, when they do horror it's just grim."
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"It'll die down like every other genre, but horror has always been one of the four or five main genres that will never go away."
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"I don't care about the genre so much. I'm good with horror, but I like other genres, too."
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"I had always loved horror films, so I wanted to do something in the horror genre but wanted it to be sweet and charming at the same time. Because there's a difference between watching horror, where you can leave it behind, and writing horror, where you have to live in it for months and months at a time."
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"We cannot understand what happens in the universe. What is glorious in it is united with what is full of horror. What is full of meaning is united to what is senseless. The spirit of the universe is at once creative and destructive — it creates while it destroys and destroys while it creates, and therefore it remains to us a riddle. And we must inevitably resign ourselves to this."
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"Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison."
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"There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror."
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"Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time."
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"I have supped full with horrors."
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"Im a devotee of Dracula, which was a pathfinder in horror and vampire fiction."
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"But the purpose of the book is not the horror, it is horror's defeat."
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"He felt that the darkness was full of unimaginable horrors - and the trouble with unimaginable horrors was that they were only too easy to imagine."
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"I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds."
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