When the Second World War finished, I was 23, and already I had seen enough horror to last me a lifetime. I'd seen dreadful, dreadful things, without saying a word. So seeing horror depicted on film doesn't affect me much.
From Christopher Lee
We don't always get the kind of work we want, but we always have a choice of whether to do it with good grace or not.
Before 'Lord of the Rings,' some people would have just classed Peter Jackson as a horror director. But there is a mind there.
I've worked with Tim Burton five times, and it's just like being part of a family; life doesn't get much better than that.
I've always acknowledged my debt to Hammer. I've always said I'm very grateful to them. They gave me this great opportunity, made me a well known face all over the world for which I am profoundly grateful.
The thing I have always tried to do is surprise people: to present them with something they didn't expect.
'The Wicker Man' for me, as an actor, was definitely the best film I've ever done.
There was a gap of seven years between the first and second Dracula movies. In the second one as everybody knows, I didn't speak, because I said I couldn't say the lines.
I thought that people should know about the dangers of Satanism, and diabolism does exist - there's no question about it.
Peter Jackson's instincts are extraordinary, as is his stamina.
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