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I've been reading horror since I was five years old.

Horror serves a cathartic role in human society, all throughout the world. It is a way of confronting the darkness, both within and without.

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've been into horror movies ever since I was five years old.

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

Horror is the future. And you cannot be afraid. You must push everything to the absolute limit, or else life will be boring. People will be boring. 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.

Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation.

The history of horror movies goes back a long way... of people trying to convincingly be terrified when looking at a piece of tape on the side of the camera box. I have a whole new respect for it.

I think that horror films have a very direct relationship to the time in which they're made. The films that really strike a film with the public are very often reflecting something that everyone, consciously or unconsciously feeling - atomic age, post 9-11, post Iraq war; it's hard to predict what people are going to be afraid of.

I'm not so sure that horror should be dismissed as something less than literature.