"It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrors of war as much as possible."
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"'New' movies are almost always hipper, faster, they mix genres aggressively, they smother their genre origins in new form, there are fewer of them, and they tend to cost a lot more money because you usually make more money on the megahit than you do on the steady progression of break-eveners. Except for the horror movie."
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"And the most terrifying question of all may be just how much horror the human mind can stand and still maintain a wakeful, staring, unrelenting sanity."
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"I'm constantly looking for something that will be pushing the audience to new scares in horror movies."
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"Entourage [movie] really is established as a genre unto itself, much like the thriller or the horror movie or the comedy. And those things trend."
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"And the old horror of being a professional writer, and the usual stench of words that goes with it, is begining to drive me out of my seat. (Buddy)"
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"I’m very busy with schoolwork, of course." "How can she be?" said Ron in horror. "We’re on vacation!"
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"I tended to be drawn to the weirder, darker stuff. Horror and sci-fi anthologies."
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"The Company of Wolves doesn't belong in any category, so it's difficult to prepare an audience for it. It's not a horror film, it's not a fantasy film, it's not a children's film - so what is it?"
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"My knowledge of horror films is pathetic because I can't really watch them."
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"I don't love horror movies with something surreal happening. That doesn't work for me. What's terrifying is something that could actually happen to me and what I would do. I don't know how to throw a punch, and I've never had to do it."
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"I find that usually when I watch something like horror film, I'm constantly thinking no, it's not going to happen."
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"But, when the chips are down, its better to be furious with someone you love, or frightened for someone you love, than be put through the merciless horror of being ashamed of someone you love."
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"I have learned what must be, and therefore have come to see the whole horror of what is."
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"I've always suffered from being labelled a horror writer - just because I didn't go to university, just because I still talk in my natural voice, just because I'm not as articulate as Martin Amis."
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"Make (the reader) think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications. My values are positively all blanks, save so far as an excited horror, a promoted pity, a created expertness... proceed to read into them more or less fantastic figures."
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"No child asks to get born, so when they are here, they should be shielded from any possible horror."
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"Horrible experiences lead us to wonder whether the person who experiences them might not be something horrible."
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"When horror is associated with what is harmful, evil results, when disgust does, badness."
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"I'm always looking for films, but the horror scripts that I get tend to be very repetitive and often not that interesting."
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