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Monsters almost always are culture's way of working out their fears and are thus inherently incredibly interesting and powerful.

There's monsters in all of us, but there's also vulnerability.

In a deeply tribal sense, we love our monsters, and I think that is the key to it right there. It is monsters; it is learning about them: it is both thrill and safety. You can think of them without being desperately afraid because they are not going to come into your living room and eat you. That is 'Jaws.'

We create monsters and then we can't control them.

We do not just fear our predators, we are transfixed by them. We are prone to weave stories and fables and chat endlessly about them.

Monsters just outside our peripheral vision are scarier to contemplate than monsters miles away or in someplace only a fool would set foot in.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

The best monsters are our anxieties given form. They make sense on the level of a dream - or a nightmare.

We don't discount that people's fears are their fears.