Horror Director Quotes

#1. He who does not arrive at the Intuition of these Truths by means of Ecstasy knows only the name of Inspiration.

Al-Ghazali

#2. I am a fan of the monster and horror genre but that's not my style as a director.

Bong Joon-ho

#3. Instead of the church in Africa to be a place for eradicating darkness by beaming out light, she has unfortunately become the den of robbers as Jesus put it.

Sunday Adelaja

#4. I don't really consider myself a horror director or a violent director at all.

Ryuhei Kitamura

#5. The Dead was cool, It's a great horror story. I went to the casting director of this movie and talked to him, then they called my agent and had me come in and read for it and they wanted to use me.

Matthew McGrory

#6. It's an exceptional time, and it's always the happiest time if you can be really present and doing the things that you want to be doing and surrounding yourself with the people you love. So, yeah, I'm in a good spot right now.

Julia Roberts

#7. I believe, as a producer/director, your duty is to create a beautiful horror film that really resonates.

Guillermo Del Toro

#8. After having edited numerous shorts, earning award nominations for it, and then 4 features edits, the director inside me is now burning to share its voice. Thriller, Horror, zany Comedy.

Kyle Cassie

#9. I had a dream about you. We were actors in a horror movie and I was hunting you down with a knife. When I finally cornered you the director yelled "Cut".... What? I can't be blamed for following instructions.

Georgia Saratsioti

#10. And thus thy memory is to me
Like some enchanted far-off isle
In some tumultuous sea
Some ocean throbbing far and free
With storms - but where meanwhile
Serenest skies continually
Just o'er that one bright island smile.

Edgar Allan Poe

#11. All through school, people told me I looked like Marcia Brady.

Christine Taylor

#12. I stopped directing in 2001 for four or five years, until I did the TV series 'Masters Of Horror.' I had been working steadily as a director since 1970. That's a long time. I was burned out.

John Carpenter

#13. When they knock you down, you not only have to get up, but you have to make it clear that you won't be knocked down a second time.

Carl Yastrzemski

#14. Horror movies, man, the blood entails so much time. And horror movies are not fun; definitely not starting there as a director. Definitely not horror.

Corey Haim

#15. Be so strong enough in virtues like hard work rather than waiting for miracle.

Sunday Adelaja

#16. The love that gushes for all is the real elixir of life - the fountain of bodily longevity. It is the lack of this that always produces the feeling of age.

J.G. Holland

#17. In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a bum.

John Carpenter

#18. No rival will steal away my sure love; that glory will be my gray hair.

Sextus Propertius

#19. We justly consider women to be weaker than ourselves, and yet we are governed by them.

Nicolas Chamfort

#20. They found Seth Hubbard in the general area where he had promised to be, though not exactly in the condition expected. He was at the end of a rope, six feet off the ground and twisting slightly in the wind.

John Grisham

#21. I've wanted to work with [Kairo aka Pulse director] Kiyoshi Kurosawa, but he has not been making horror movies recently.

Roy Lee

#22. Gender and race got very entwined in the 19th century, as abolition broke out, and then women wanted the right to speak about it.

Sue Monk Kidd

#23. Before 'Lord of the Rings,' some people would have just classed Peter Jackson as a horror director. But there is a mind there.

Christopher Lee

#24. If I don't come home covered head to toe in fake blood then I haven't done my job as a horror director.

Eli Roth

#25. One must be able to say at all times
instead of points, straight lines, and planes
tables, chairs, and beer mugs

David Hilbert

#26. My 'Inner World' can only tap the GOODNESS in the World outside !
From within I see 'beauty', from within I see 'ugliness', from within I see 'divinity', from within I 'enjoy',from within I feel 'sadness' !
It all starts from ME, goes all around and comes back to ME!!

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#27. I'm not a director to make an action or horror film. That's not for me.

Jason Alexander

#28. Everybody is dealing with how much of their own aliveness they can bear and how much they need to anesthetize themselves.

Adam Phillips