William Friedkin Quotes
Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest - I will say the greatest
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I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.
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I really like the power of stopping the laughter and turning it to horror.
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I think female-centric films shouldn't be only about thriller or horror. Angelina Jolie has been doing all kinds of stuff.
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I'm not the best singer in the world, but the albums have always been personal. They're stories about me and what I'm going through.
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Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in.
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Horror and panic themselves are forms of violence, and diminishing them, restricting their dimensions, is itself a civilizing act.
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I love horror movies.
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I try to get roles that challenge me in what I can do and who I think I can portray. For me, it's about creating characters with really fascinating stories, because that's what I like to watch on TV.
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When I do a horror or a fantasy film it all boils down to something in the script that surprises me. It could be a big thing or a small moment. If it's there I'll do it.
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I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head in gratitude to those storytellers who have gone before and paved a way for me play in their stomping grounds. Doubtless those who want to be offended, will - allowing me to make them happy, too, which pleases me as much as it pleases them.
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I pecked my stories out two-fingered on the Remington portable typewriter my mother had bought me. I had begged for it when I was ten.
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I love old books. They tell you stories about their use. You can see where the fingerprints touched the pages as they held the book open. You can see how long they lingered on each page by the finger stains.
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I love coming of age stories that have struggle.
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I'm not really a horror movie fan.
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I'd never thought of horror as being so challenging, but it is.
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I probably get more inspiration for human stories and idiosyncrasies than I do animal stories.
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In all the horror films that I have done, all of those women were strong women. I don't feel I ever played the victim, although I was always in jeopardy.
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I have placed there a little door opening on to the mysterious. I have made stories.
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I love telling stories about people that don't normally get written about. It's a different kind of life here. This is a movie from the heart, and it's a little different from the normal movies you'll see.
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Perhaps my dynamite plants will put an end to war sooner than your pacifist congresses. On the day two army corps can annihilate each other in one second all civilized nations will recoil from war in horror.
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I'm fantastic at cooking up stories. In the kitchen, I can, at best, make tea and a badly shaped dosa.
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A thin line separates destiny from coincidence.
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Typography has one plain duty before it and that is to convey information in writing. No argument or consideration can absolve typography from this duty.
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Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest - I will say the greatest
