People who love horror films are people with boring lives... when a really scary movie is over, you're reassured to see that you're still alive and the world still exists as it did before. That's the real reason we have horror films - they act as shock absorbers - and if they disappeared altogether, I bet you'd see a big leap in the number of serial killers. After all, anyone stupid enough to get the idea of murdering people from a movie could get the same idea from watching the news.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Only after the last tree has been cut down,only after the last river has been poisoned,only after th... THE CREE PEOPLE Horror films are the ones that pay the bills, and historically, they have shown that they are good i... CHRISTOPHER YOUNG Those of us in the industry who are still foolishly clinging to the idea that female films with wome... CATE BLANCHETT The audience that would see that movie, by and large, doesn't go to see horror films, ... It was a g... WES CRAVEN The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE In the circumstance where we do make an arrest, we?re taking the place of a little child. And, it?s ... MICHAEL HARRIS It seemed like in the States, you could make a cheap movie if it was a horror movie, and it could lo... SAM RAIMI I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. People have always liked to be frightened. People love to feel that jolt of adrenaline. People love ... AARON STANFORD I think that, back in the day, there used to be a lot of horror films that kind of had a checklist o... ELISHA CUTHBERT For me and for John, it really kind of opened the minds of people from all over world to open their ... CLAIRE GILBERT A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that ... GEORGE GURDJIEFF A lot of people who are not familiar with film festivals need to see stars in their movie to make th... CHRIS LAMONT I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life... CHARLES BUKOWSKI People are disturbed enough by serial killers, but the whole notion of female violence, particularly... CALEB CARR I laugh a lot in horror films. If I'm scared in a horror film, I try to think about what's s... JASON REITMAN You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. I'm honestly kind of scared of horror films. My girlfriend always tries to expose them to me. Be... CHRIS CARMACK Loving someone who never loved you, is like remembering a face you never saw. No matter how har... RATISH EDWARDS It's not scary to make a horror film because you get to pull back the curtain and see that none of i... JOSH HARTNETT But I don't just see the movie when I see the movie, I see all the great people who worked on it and... BRAD BIRD The young people are rather interested in watching the American feature films. But over time they fo... ZHANG YUANYUAN The young people are rather interested in watching the American feature films, ... But over time the... ZHANG YIMOU How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL I never expected the movie to become as big as it has. I thought that we'd be lucky if a handful of ... AARON RUELL Part of a horror movie has to be a bit fakey for me to really enjoy it. The new ones are so realisti... LYNDA BARRY I think 'Dead Poets' was probably my favorite, just to get started with the idea of doing a ... ROBIN WILLIAMS When you have an opportunity to see the 200-foot change in elevation, when people come out here and ... BRIAN BARACZ When looking for evidence that something exists, it's silly
to start by assuming that it is impossib... LEWIS N. ROE Using the scientific knowledge that we
currently possess, we can take simple logical steps, backed b... LEWIS N. ROE I still can't get over the idea that respectable adults now go to see superhero movies and that ... CHRIS WARE Not many people realize this, but I'm a really squeamish guy. When I watch other horror films th... JAMES WAN There are people who fly to the height of stardom in a single day, and then there are people like me... TERI POLO What's the difference between people who see and seek gaps and those that see and seek bridges? The ... RICHIE NORTON Realists see the world as it really is in all of its beauty and all if its horror. TERENCE T. GORSKI I can totally see why Ricky would be bummed about people accusing him of stealing an idea he came up... MATT STONE I love watching horror films because I don't get scared easily. ESHA GUPTA People who work in horror know they are contributing to a genre that has always been loved and will ... CHRISTOPHER YOUNG You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER I want to make movies that are interesting and different, and that make people think. I mean, I want... ELI ROTH I thought the marketing was really smart and really clever and unique at the time. It positioned ... JAMES WAN They still have negligent auditing, they still have things going for a walk, and they have no idea w... EDWARD SNOWDEN She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY We're really big horror movie fans too, ... And we always wanted to film a horror movie called 'Camp... BAM MARGERA People don't die, they continue to live. As long as you remember who they are when they're still liv... RIKI JOU Horror as for me is the best choice, you can gain a lot of. I like to be afraid like to see this shi... DEYTH BANGER When you are interviewing refugees, each person you talk to has a different story that could come fr... BRANDON STANTON When you usher, you meet a lot of people who are not involved with the theater, but (who still consi... GRACE MORGAN Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work! DEYTH BANGER The problem with real estate is that until people see it, they don't believe it. After the Tennyson ... DAVE WAMSLEY I didn't get a formal introduction to horror until right about the age of 12, when my uncle show... JOSH MALERMAN You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. I know it's surprising, but there is a generation of people who haven't seen a Bond movie. T... DANIEL CRAIG It's not about what it is, it's about what it can become. DR. SEUSS It's still very preliminary, except we really like the idea of honoring people, as well as from a to... DAN FENTON If the movie is a big success this weekend, I think you'll see a pretty big ramp in signings that th... ERIC WOLD 'Shall We Dance?' takes a small, exquisite Japanese movie and turns it into a big, stupid Am... STEPHEN HUNTER I really love horror novels, horror films, that are pointing at deeper ideas and thematic meaning. I... SCOTT DERRICKSON A good horror movie - it doesn't matter how many comedy horror films there have been before. Doe... FEDE ALVAREZ Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show.... CHARLES BUKOWSKI A lot of people in the movie industry tend to run and hide from it like ostriches. Movie industry pe... MADELEINE STOWE As far as film goes, I enjoy all Hollywood films and all Horror films like The Bride of Frankenstein... JOHNNY RAMONE It's a funny movie, too. People may wonder what's going on when they hear that about a movie that ha... DAVID CRONENBERG Obviously, the cinematography of films is art, just as a still shot can be art. If I'm watching ... FRANK OCEAN The whole idea of genre and categorising films is a critic's construct. For me, I just try and m... BEN WHEATLEY I do needlepoint from kits. I give them as gifts to people in the form of cushion covers and they ar... LYNNE TRUSS The mark of a real man, is a man who can allow himself to fall deeply in love with a woman. But the ... C. JOYBELL C. I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live... LATOYA JACKSON The movie really hit home. That was pretty inspirational because a lot of the kids didn't see the mo... HEATH BAILEY To have the time to reminisce is one of the futures gifts. Don't think to much, don't live to fast, ... CALVIN WILSON We are the masters of our own destinies we shape and mould our lives into to the circumstances surro... GARY F EVANS... As far as film goes, I enjoy all Hollywood films and all Horror films like The Bride of Frankenstein... JOHNNY RAMONE Nowadays the thing which is going to help us in hard times are the books/films... movies.... series.... DEYTH BANGER I love horror movies. I mean, who doesn't like a good horror movie every once in a while? It'... TARA REID Life can be tough & make you wanna give up. But baby keep your head up because you got all the time ... LILLIAN S. VILORIA I decided to have the clips. In a year when some films are films people haven't seen, it's nice to r... GILBERT CATES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a... NEIL GAIMAN His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING The scariest movie I have ever seen, and my favorite horror film is, 'The Exorcist.' It is a... KEEGAN ALLEN We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements. LAURA DOCKRILL
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HARUKI MURAKAMI I do feel that I’ve managed to make something I could maybe call my world…over time…little by ... HARUKI MURAKAMI This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled ... HARUKI MURAKAMI I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning. HARUKI MURAKAMI Being with her I feel a pain, like a frozen knife stuck in my chest. An awful pain, but the funny th... HARUKI MURAKAMI Sometimes I feel as if I'm racing with my own shadow, Korogi says. But that's one thing I'll never b... HARUKI MURAKAMI sound is of no use to human evolution. in fact, it gets in the way. HARUKI MURAKAMI Yeah. The more languages you know the better. And I've got a knack for them. I taught myself French ... HARUKI MURAKAMI Languages are like games. You learn the rules for one, and they all work the same way. Like women. HARUKI MURAKAMI Because, in the final analysis, the language we speak constitutes who we are as people. HARUKI MURAKAMI We're on the border of this world, speaking a common language. That's all. HARUKI MURAKAMI Learning another language is like becoming another person. HARUKI MURAKAMI Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language. HARUKI MURAKAMI If you look at it the other way round, that's the only reason why this world is inside of me. Maybe ... HARUKI MURAKAMI To know one’s own state is not a simple matter. One cannot look directly at one’s own face with ... HARUKI MURAKAMI If you can't understand it without an explanation, you can't understand it with an explanation. HARUKI MURAKAMI Yo no soy tan fuerte. A mi me importa que me entiendan. Hay personas a quienes quiero comprender y q... HARUKI MURAKAMI In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life. An inte... HARUKI MURAKAMI Maybe it's just hiding somewhere. Or gone on a trip to come home. But falling in love is always a pr... HARUKI MURAKAMI When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it. That's what I think. It's jus... HARUKI MURAKAMI We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. ... HARUKI MURAKAMI Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time. HARUKI MURAKAMI For me, running is both exercise and a metaphor. Running day after day, piling up the races, bit by ... HARUKI MURAKAMI I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long dis... HARUKI MURAKAMI All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a p... HARUKI MURAKAMI Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memori... HARUKI MURAKAMI Every day I go to my study and sit at my desk and put the computer on. At that moment, I have to ope... HARUKI MURAKAMI And, well, mine are kind of on the heavy side anyway. The first day or two, I don't want to do ANYTH... HARUKI MURAKAMI No, I don't want your money. The world moves less by money than by what you owe people and what they... HARUKI MURAKAMI From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was... HARUKI MURAKAMI I know I have a pretty good sense for music, but she was better than me. I used to think it was such... HARUKI MURAKAMI I shouted into the phone, but there was no reply. Silence floated up from the receiver like smoke fr... HARUKI MURAKAMI Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting. HARUKI MURAKAMI Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means... HARUKI MURAKAMI There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person's heart. HARUKI MURAKAMI Hajime," she began, "the sad truth is that some things can't go backwards. Once they start going for... HARUKI MURAKAMI We were, the two of us, still fragmentary beings, just beginning to sense the presence of an unexpec... HARUKI MURAKAMI Once she was out of the car and gone, my world was suddenly hollow and meaningless. HARUKI MURAKAMI No one could say how long that life would last. Whatever has form can disappear in an instant. HARUKI MURAKAMI Look at the rain long enough, with no thoughts in your head, and you gradually feel your body fallin... HARUKI MURAKAMI She was, if anything, on the plain side, at least not the type to attract men wherever she went. But... HARUKI MURAKAMI sometimes i'd wake up at two or three in the morning and not be able to fall asleep again. i'd get o... HARUKI MURAKAMI Inside that darkness, i saw rain falling on the sea. Rain softly falling on a vast sea, with no one ... HARUKI MURAKAMI Once thing goes wrong, then the whole house of cards collapses. And there's no way you can extricate... HARUKI MURAKAMI I didn't feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened t... HARUKI MURAKAMI Because memory and sensations are so uncertain, so biased, we always rely on a certain reality-call ... HARUKI MURAKAMI I always feel as if I'm struggling to become someone else. As if I'm trying to find a new place, gra... HARUKI MURAKAMI Everyone just keeps on disappearing. Some things vanish, like they were cut away. Others fade slowly... HARUKI MURAKAMI Autumn finally arrived. And when it did, I came to a decision. Something had to give: I couldn't kee... HARUKI MURAKAMI But you know Hajime, some feelings cause us pain because they remain. HARUKI MURAKAMI Reading was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the train, in bed until late at night, in scho... HARUKI MURAKAMI Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint. HARUKI MURAKAMI Lots of different ways to live and lots of different ways to die. But in the end that doesn't make a... HARUKI MURAKAMI If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn't afford to lose. I... HARUKI MURAKAMI The sad truth is that certain types of things can't go backward. Once they start going forward, no m... HARUKI MURAKAMI I wasn't in love with her. And she didn't love me. For me the question of love was irrelevant. What ... HARUKI MURAKAMI I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things... HARUKI MURAKAMI Have you heard of the illness hysteria siberiana ? Try to imagine this: You're a farmer, livin... HARUKI MURAKAMI No matter where i go, i still end up me. What's missing never changes. The scenery may change, but i... HARUKI MURAKAMI For a long time, she held a special place in my heart. I kept this special place just for her, like ... HARUKI MURAKAMI I was always attracted not by some quantifiable, external beauty, but by something deep down, someth... HARUKI MURAKAMI For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting. HARUKI MURAKAMI