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In most horror films, you don't really get to understand why this character is the way he is.

People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.

The horror genre gets you in touch with our primal instincts as a people more than any other genre I can think of. It gives you this chance to sort of reflect on who we are and look at the sort of uglier side that we don't always look at, and have fun with that very thing.

Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes one's fear, but the human being who has contact with it.

It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.

Horror is like a serpent; always shedding its skin, always changing. And it will always come back. It can't be hidden away like the guilty secrets we try to keep in our subconscious.

More than fantasy or even science fiction, Ray Bradbury wrote horror, and like so many great horror writers he was himself utterly without fear, of anything. He wasn't afraid of looking uncool - he wasn't scared to openly love innocence, or to be optimistic, or to write sentimentally when he felt that way.

The Mexican succumbs very easily to sentimental effusions, and therefore he shuns them.

Horror is about dreams and heightened states. It really is about taking away the logic on some level and getting right to the emotion of something.

I think of setting as almost a character of its own, influencing the other characters in ways they're not even aware of. So much of the success of a good ghost story rides on creating a creepy atmosphere; details of the landscape itself can help create a sense of dread.