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I always felt that what is scary is actually hearing someone tell you what they think they see. That sense of invisibility makes things a lot scarier, since your imagination tends to fill in the gaps.

I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on.

People like scary stories. There's a fascination with fear themes, and we want to face those things in a weird, subconscious way.

What scares me is what scares you. We're all afraid of the same things. That's why horror is such a powerful genre. All you have to do is ask yourself what frightens you and you'll know what frightens me.

Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is.

Ghostly things don't really scare me, but they really intrigue me.

I don't like to get scared - it's not one of the emotions I enjoy. So I have to assume that if there are scary things in my books, they aren't very scary.

I think the hardest part about making a scary film is about being able to retain the mystery, especially when it comes to supernatural stuff.

I think fear of the unknown is the scariest thing.

Horror and the unknown or the strange are always closely connected so that it is hard to create a convincing picture of shattered natural law or cosmic alienage or 'outsideness' without laying stress on the emotion of fear.