Horror movies often work better when we have a stake in the game. The more we care about the characters, the more human they are to us, the more appealing they are to us and the more effective the horror tends to be.

The first movie I ever saw was a horror movie. It was Bambi. When that little deer gets caught in a forest fire, I was terrified, but I was also exhilarated.

Want a Coke?” Abra asked. “Sugar solves lots of problems, that’s what I think.

Legends grow beards, and twenty-three years is plenty of time to grow a long one.

Put an egg in your shoe and beat it, make like a tree and leave, imitate an amoeba and split.

I think of fear as a survival function, and in the stories that I write, the only thing that I've tried to do is provide people with nightmares which are really safe places to put those fears for a while because you can say afterwards that uh, that, that well it was all just make-believe anyway, so I just took my emotions for a walk.

Some things were better lost than found.