One of the best things that ever happened to me was Rocky Horror being a total flop in New York as a play. I mean, it was a disaster, and it was the night of the long knives as far as the critics were concerned.
The idea of innovation is the idea of progress stripped of the aspirations of the Enlightenment, scrubbed clean of the horrors of the twentieth century, and relieved of its critics.
With the exception of 'Descent,' that was a very conscious thing to make an action or horror movie that was an all-female cast because I hadn't seen anything like that before.
I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!
I grew up reading comic books. Super hero comic books, Archie comic books, horror comic books, you name it.
The first three issues of 'Cemetery Dance' were mainly horror, but now it's really a cross-genre magazine. It's all just snowballed.
Horror fans are very passionate people, and they are very much into the 'Saw' thing. So they watch sometimes as carefully as the writers and producers do, in terms of the way the story plays out.
All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.
so many people would be afraid to look in the mirror if the saw their character and not their face…it would be like american horror story.
I like horror; I like comedy; I like drama; I like action; I like female heroes.
When I do a horror or a fantasy film it all boils down to something in the script that surprises me. It could be a big thing or a small moment. If it's there I'll do it.
I do needlepoint from kits. I give them as gifts to people in the form of cushion covers and they are often speechless with horror.
You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road.
This is an area you always need to address when you're dealing with Dracula is the fact that there is something kind of attractive in his darkness - which there isn't in other horror characters.
What kind of America do people want to leave for their children? What horrors are down the road, stuff that was unthinkable 30 years ago?
I think that true horror is accomplished by slowly getting into your brain. The old way is much more scary.
High-level actors can be all about their close-ups and the size of their trailers. I'd heard these horror stories of how a really powerful actor can come in and change your script.
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.
The one negative to horror is that it's always law of diminishing returns. When you go in the funhouse, the ride is never scary the second time. You will never have that pure experience as when you first watch it.
I saw 'Food, Inc.' last night - it was like a horror movie. I'm definitely thinking about my food supply now and how I want to grow my own.
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.
