Quotes with horror

  • I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You stare back with horror and indignation at such questions. But why, if slavery is not wrong to those upon whom it is imposed?
  • People can get obsessed with romance, they can get obsessed with political paranoia, they can get obsessed with horror. It's isn't the fault of the subject matter that creates the obsession, I don't think.
  • The whole idea of genre and categorising films is a critic's construct. For me, I just try and make stories and see where they go, but there's nothing wrong with horror; there's nothing wrong with romantic comedies.

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  • George Bernard Shaw 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
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Irving Layton God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.
    Irving Layton
    Canadian poet (1912 - 2006)
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  • Bryan Fuller Horror films have always been quite operatic for me. I always sort of scratch my head at people's offense to them? If you don't get them, and you don't like them, then don't watch them.
    Bryan Fuller
    American television writer and producer (1969 - )
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  • Angelina Grimke I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You stare back with horror and indignation at such questions. But why, if slavery is not wrong to those upon whom it is imposed?
    Angelina Grimke
    American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879)
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  • Dorothy Parker I can't talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and it's a horror to look back on. I can't imagine how I did it. When I got away from it I couldn't even refer to the place by name. ''Out there,'' I called it.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • Edith Wharton I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!! What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without the sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.
    Edith Wharton
    American Author (1862 - 1937)
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  • Aaron Stanford I do know that I've read somewhere that it's been statistically proven that in times of war, horror films are much more popular. I don't know why that is. You'd think it'd be the opposite. You'd think people would want to escape from it.
    Aaron Stanford
    American actor (1976 - )
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  • Bruce Conner I had a tremendous horror of going into the Army. That is probably why I went to college for so long.
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  • Bryan Fuller I love horror, fantasy and sci-fi. Those are my genres of love and devotion.
    Bryan Fuller
    American television writer and producer (1969 - )
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  • Anthony Holden I mean Buckingham Palace has never hired a professional public relations outfit let alone a Madison Avenue type and they would throw up their hands in horror at the very idea.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Bryan Fuller I read 'Red Dragon' back in high school. I love Thomas Harris' approach to the crime thriller that crossed over into horror in a way that nobody really tapped into.
    Bryan Fuller
    American television writer and producer (1969 - )
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  • Anthony Holden I remember a moment when the Prince went back to his old school, Grammar School in Melbourne, and slightly to his horror his old music teacher produced a cello.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Adam Arkin I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually have to do, ironically, with powerlessness and isolation.
    Adam Arkin
    American actor (1956 - )
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  • David Cronenberg I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you're making a horror film doesn't mean you can't make an artful film.
    David Cronenberg
    Canadian movie maker (1943 - )
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  • Bryan Fuller I think one of the things that was a huge surprise to everyone with 'Silence of the Lambs' was that that was an Oscar-winning horror movie. It struck such a nerve with audiences that it was a very particular, special experience.
    Bryan Fuller
    American television writer and producer (1969 - )
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  • Carolyn Maloney If you ask around, it's pretty easy to find someone who has a bank account overdraft horror story to tell.
    Carolyn Maloney
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • Alejandro Amenabar In horror movies today it's lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance.
    Alejandro Amenabar
    Spanish-Chilean film director, screenwriter and composer (1972 - )
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  • Barry Watson In most horror films, you don't really get to understand why this character is the way he is.
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  • H. P. Lovecraft It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
    H. P. Lovecraft
    American writer (1890 - 1937)
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