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" After college, I went on a real big classics kick. Read everything by Faulkner, Hemingway, Woolf, Proust, Dostoevsky. And that classics train dropped me off at 'Dracula.' Halfway through it, I understood I'd never be going back, never 'leaving' the genre again. Since then, I've been on a fairly strict horror diet. "

" After my film 'The Tale of Two Sisters,' I received a lot of offers from Hollywood to direct, but because 'A Tale of Two Sisters' was a horror film, I received a lot of horror films. But I wasn't interested in working in the same genre, and the scripts I received for films in different genres were for projects that were near completion. "

" After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith; they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat. "

Martha Gellhorn

" A good horror movie should have peaks and valleys, a good horror movie should move you emotionally; a good horror movie should be exciting to watch and energizing in a weird kind of way. "

" 'A Head Full of Ghosts' was my first full horror novel, and that felt like coming home as a writer. "

Paul G. Tremblay

" All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. "

" All of us have our individual curses, something that we are uncomfortable with and something that we have to deal with, like me making horror films, perhaps. "

" All people who grew up with science fiction and fantasy and horror went through the whole acculturation process of the genre. We were all told to read the golden age writers. We were all told Heinlein and Asimov and all these straight, white males, although some of them were Jewish. "

" All these horror movies are slasher film now. I like them, they're fun, but they wink at the audience and you're really not terrified through the movie. "

" All you have to do is hold your first soldier who is dying in your arms, and have that terribly futile feeling that I can't do anything about it... Then you understand the horror of war. "

Norman Schwarzkopf

" Alone is a much better film than House of the Dead and better than most horror movies out today. "

" A lot of my friends are people who do horror films: Wes Craven, John Carpenter, Stephen King. "

George A. Romero

" A lot of painters listen to music, I think, while they paint. But I hate to do that. It's a horror. I can't really listen to the music. I'm not really concentrating on it, and I'm not really concentrating on the painting. "

" A lot of the main characters in horror movies are outsiders as well, so that outsider syndrome reverberates within horror fans and geeky collectors. It's kind of a rallying call that brings fans and collectors together who are a little socially retarded, maybe. "

" Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror. "

" Ambiguity and the horror of possibility play a part in so many of my favorite horror stories: Shirley Jackson's 'We Will Always Live in the Castle,' Mark Danielewski's 'House of Leaves,' Victor LaValle's 'Big Machine,' Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper,' Stewart O'Nan's 'The Speed Queen,' and so many more. "

Paul G. Tremblay

" 'American Horror' goes for a very specific kind of Seventies suburban downer ambience - 'Flowers in the Attic' paperbacks, Black Sabbath album covers and late-night flicks like 'Let's Scare Jessica to Death.' It even has 'Go Ask Alice'-era urban legends. "

" 'American Horror' is the debasement of the suburban family, the way a lonely kid would have imagined it in the Seventies. "

" A movie that's about other horror movies isn't interesting. A movie about who we are, is. "

" A movie with nothing but violence is not a good movie. But one that is actually entertaining around the horror is one that people will remember and watch again and again. "

" And I'm auditioning right now for a movie, and then I have a script that I'm reading right now for a horror film, and I'm meeting for a couple of television shows that I just had yesterday, and pretty much was offered one of them. "

Trishelle Cannatella

" And I think that I'd be a natural for scoring horror movies. "

" And I used to buy 'Fangoria,' the horror magazine, which made my mum wonder if I was going to be a serial killer. "

" An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it. "

George Bernard Shaw

" Any horror element is as much psychological as special effects. "

Christopher Eccleston

" Any kind of horror video game where I'm the first-person player and I'm... I suddenly stop caring about the video game dude, and I'm like, I really don't want him to die,' and then the minute he dies, it upsets me. I can't play those games. "

" Anyone can write a story based on the kind of horror where you see a guy in car and then there's the bad guy in the back seat. It's infantile to rely on that for telling a story. That's like going to bed and thinking there's a monster under your bed. It's silly. "

Sergio Aragones

" Any peace process after so many years of horror and terror will be long and difficult. "

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

" Any time a new horror film comes out that looks appealing, I'm always excited to go see it. "

Alex Breckenridge

" A really good horror film has a story. "

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