Top 76 Quotes About Scary Movies
#1. I love scary movies, but I'd never really even seen The Vampire Diaries, up until I met [Kevin Williamson].
Britt Robertson
#2. Scaring someone's the hardest thing to do, and that's why most of these scary movies are not scary. They're sick, but not scary. There's a lot of sickness out there, of people who then sit there and watch it, which I think is absolutely dismaying.
Ridley Scott
#3. I'm actually pretty afraid of scary movies, so I can't watch them at night, but I am a fan during the daytime!
Taissa Farmiga
#5. We felt like we had done as much as you can do with the slasher genre. We were trying to find the next group of scary movies that were ripe for parody.
Keenen Ivory Wayans
#6. Your mind can do wonders, so scary movies are not the healthiest for me because it does freak me out.
Diora Baird
#7. I always wanted to get into the horror genre. I like scary movies. I want to go to the fan shows and sign posters with my head hanging by a thread like a B-movie actress.
Illeana Douglas
#8. I don't watch scary movies. Sometimes, even having to read the script and do an episode of 'Grimm,' I get a little tense because I know someone's going to jump out of somewhere.
Bitsie Tulloch
#9. This is how I feel about horror films: there's enough scary things that happen in day-to-day life. Sometimes just going and getting the mail is scary, when you open your bills. And so, sometimes I feel like scary movies are just tapping into those anxieties and magnifying them.
Josh Hamilton
#10. I started out coming from more of a concert music background. It just turns out that 20th-century music techniques lend themselves to scary movies and horror movies.
Marco Beltrami
#11. I try to work with people who you're not used to seeing in scary movies. I think it makes for a more interesting mix, when you're watching the movie.
Jason Blum
#12. After watching too many scary movies it was hard not to have an overactive imagination, along with an inherent distrust of seemingly benevolent (and sometimes inanimate) things, like lawn gnomes.
Kat Stiles
#13. I don't like to see a scary image because it sticks in my mind. Which is maybe why I get hired to do the scary movies because I'm truly scared and upset.
Shawnee Smith
#14. For me, the sound design and the musical score is a big part of what makes scary movies work.
James Wan
#15. I love horror, I love scary movies, I love thrillers. If things creep you out and spook you? I love it.
Lana Parrilla
#16. I love scary movies. I like American Horror Story. That is more of a series, but it is really good.
Daniel Jacobs
#18. I don't see scary movies. I've never seen 'The Exorcist' or 'Jaws'.
Julianna Margulies
#20. I refused to look back. I wasn't dumb enough to turn around and peek over my shoulder. I was the type who yelled at the girls in scary movies who did so.
Amelia Hutchins
#21. Scary movies are my favorite. My kids love Hocus Pocus. I'm a big fan of Sleepy Hollow with Johnny Depp and Freddy Krueger.
Andre Dirrell
#22. I'm all about scary movies! The 'Halloweentown' ones are my absolute favorites.
Olivia Holt
#24. I think people would be most surprised to know that I love scary movies.
Olivia Holt
#25. I don't watch scary movies. I mean it. Not ever. They make me scared. Scared of being alone in the house. Scared of being alone upstairs at night. Scared of walking home from work in the dark.
Laura Buzo
#26. Personally, I'm a real wimp with scary movies. I get so scared.
Keri Russell
#27. If you said 'Boo' to me, I wouldn't sleep for two weeks! I don't like scary movies.
Bindi Irwin
#28. I'm more of a thriller-horror fan - things that could really happen. I don't like scary movies, the 'Saw' movies scare the crap out of me - I think I've seen two of them and I wanted to go crawl in a hole.
Katee Sackhoff
#29. I like the old, classic scary movies. I love 'Psycho,' 'The Sixth Sense,' and 'Poltergeist.'
Miranda Cosgrove
#31. I can't watch scary movies right now, because living on my own, it kind of freaks me out.
Ashley Tisdale
#32. I have always been really scared of scary movies just because I live by myself - and then seeing something, then having a big imagination and then like thinking you see it in the middle of the night. So I've never been really into them.
Ashley Tisdale
#33. He doesn't want to know about the real me. It'll be like people in scary movies who think they want to know whats in the basement, but when they find out, they're always sorry.
Lynda Mullaly Hunt
#34. I always get scared. I can't read scripts. I'm scared, scary movies and stuff.
Vanessa Ferlito
#35. I love scary movies. I like blood and gore, and I love Halloween movies.
Carrie Underwood
#37. Dylan wrapped his arms around my middle and pulled me closer to him. Perhaps the true reason Hollywood made scary movies. So guys could have an excuse for holding a girl close.
Rachel Hawthorne
#38. I'm honestly kind of scared of horror films. My girlfriend always tries to expose them to me. Being in a scary movie and seeing all the fake blood and stuff definitely takes away from the magic and kind of humanizes scary movies to me now, though.
Chris Carmack
#40. I love watching scary movies because you always wonder what happens next, and that's what's going to happen on 'The Haunting Hour:' you're always going to want to know what happens next.
Dakota Goyo
#41. Making scary movies and creating tension is very technical and it require a lot of coverage. It requires the stretching of time.
Franck Khalfoun
#42. I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.
Famke Janssen
#43. The scares are the easier part of scary movies. The hard part of scary movies is what leads up to the scares.
Jason Blum
#44. The best scary movies have great humor in them and a great story.
Stephen Sommers
#45. I really did Regression to work with Alejandro [Amenabar]. I found him very interesting. His movie, The Others, is one of the better scary movies of the last period of time.
Ethan Hawke
#46. It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.
Vincent D'Onofrio
#47. I'm not a huge fan of scary movies, but I love doing them because your character arc gets condensed, and everything is elevated, and so you kind of have this amazing opportunity to go in many different places.
Imogen Poots
#48. I don't go to scary movies. I don't like the experience of being scared. I think it's very weird that some people do. Obviously, humans are the only animals that do that. You don't see a wolf walk to the end of a cliff and look over the edge to freak himself out.
Chuck Klosterman
#49. I loved growing up and going to haunted houses and being scared. I loved watching 'The Exorcist,' 'Candyman' and all sorts of scary movies.
Katie Featherston
#50. Special effects movies have taken over the universe. That and scary movies.
Jami Gertz
#51. Think about scary movies: There's a fine line between horror and humor.
Roy Blount Jr.
#52. I just want to make scary movies," Jerome replied. "With occasional nudity.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#53. Terrible things always seemed to happen to hitchhikers in movies - including my own. It has always been glamorous and dangerous and scary and sexy.
John Waters
#54. Sometimes the things in our heads are far worse than anything they could put in books or on film!!
C.K. Webb
#55. When I'm 32? Hopefully I'll have made my mark with a few different movies, some scary ones and some comedies. I'm really funny, I have a great personality on the camera.
Serena Williams
#56. Movies are collective, cooperative endeavours, which I like a lot. But writing is all up to you, it's what's so scary; it's just you and that page. But I really like it a lot.
Jane Fonda
#57. The type of movies that give me the heebie jeebies are thrillers, because anything that's playing with your thoughts and mind, that's scary. But one thing that they never do in horror movies that I always do is I pray. You never see them pray in horror movies.
Keke Palmer
#58. Horror movies travel pretty well anyway. They're like action movies: People overseas can watch them and enjoy them, and they're not so culturally specific in terms of their references, and they can follow a good scary story.
Robert Englund
#59. I was a teenager in the '80s - and maybe I'm wrong about this - but it seemed like a bad era for movies that were scary. It was really the height of movies that were disgusting.
Chuck Klosterman
#60. Comedy doesn't come easy for me. I've only done 2 movies that are really comedy-style films and I have to work at them. And they're just as scary in a way. I hate labeling all these things; comedy, love stories, dark drama, whatever.
Channing Tatum
#61. Mental hospitals are great for horror movies because they're already scary even without the horror or supernatural elements. This is a place where you can play with the ideas of one's sanity, what's real and what's not.
Michael Rasmussen
#62. 'Jurassic Park' movies don't fit into a specific genre. They're sci-fi adventures that also have to be funny, emotional, and scary as hell. That takes a lot of construction, but it can't feel designed.
Colin Trevorrow
#63. There's something scary about the unknown. And maybe the scariest movies couldn't ever be made because they are too deep in somebody's head, too unknown to get out.
Avey Tare
#64. If you watch a scary movie together, then the scariness is cut in half!
Hidekaz Himaruya
#65. A lot of us have been raised with the Bible and with movies from Hollywood to believe that God shouts down from the heavens or appears in a burning bush. It's always so dramatic and kind of scary. So that's what we all expect when we're asking God for some answers.
Echo Bodine
#66. No one will ever write a horror novel as scary as reading about my symptoms on WebMD.
John Raptor
#67. There were just things in Disney movies that probably were too scary for kids.
Paul Reubens
#68. I decided to be an actress, and the day after, I was an actress. That was quick and very scary at the same time. When 'Obscure Object of Desire' came out in France, I felt guilty for my friends at the National School who weren't in the movies. The whole thing was turmoil.
Carole Bouquet
#69. Now, I have big-money offers on three movies, and I have director approval. That's kind of scary,' he says. 'No directors have been attached. That's a lot of pressure on me.
Cuba Gooding Jr.
#70. I'm not a huge scary movie kind of guy; like, I don't do slasher movies, because I'm really squeamish. But if I had to pick a favorite, it would definitely be 'The Shining' with Jack Nicholson. Not only is that a scary movie, it's just a flat out classic.
Brendan Robinson
#71. Movies aren't scare, they are part of the scary stuff. But the scary thing is the truth, what more scary than that??
What will happen if you understand what you eat now, what you drink?? You get disadvantages??
...
You don't want to make you look negative side, do you?
Deyth Banger
#72. After torturing our adrenaline by watching a horror movie for a couple of hours the places we are most afraid of are the doors and windows of the room even though they are the only ways for us to escape in case of occurrence such an event.
Sanhita Baruah
#73. For me, it's very easy to write a horror movie that's just a succession of scary sequences, but it's hard to find horror movies that have a genuine theme to them that are really exploring some aspect of our psychology and our fears.
Ehren Kruger
#74. I like movies that are scary, but I don't want them to be dirt dumb. I want a movie that gets my blood racing, makes me laugh, but also gives me something to think about, with maybe a little sexy thrown in. Hollywood doesn't make movies like that.
Penn Jillette
#75. I think that's the real reason, sometimes, that people talk about my stories as being scary, because if you compare what goes on in my stories to what goes on in popular movies and popular songs, it's very mild.
Mary Gaitskill
#76. When I was a kid, my favorite movies were the George Pal version of 'War Of The Worlds,' 'Them,' and 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers.' Those movies were scary! They haunted my nightmares for years, so when I started writing, I wanted to write a story that was just as big and just as scary.
David Gerrold
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