[on the film Poltergeist (1982)]: Poltergeist is the darker side of my nature, it`s me when I was scaring my younger sisters half to death. In Poltergeist, I wanted to terrify and I also wanted to amuse - I tried to mix the laughs and screams together.
Steven Spielberg
[on John Ford] Oh, Ford was a peculiar man. You had to know how to handle him. Actors were terrified of him because he liked to terrify them. He was a sadist.
John Carradine
I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I`ll go for the gross-out. I`m not proud.
Stephen King
I began to feel that he was a character who, left to his own devices, wouldn`t really speak at all.I thought about him as being autistic in some way. He simply doesn`t understand human beings. Social situations terrify him. On the character jean-Baptiste ...
Ben Whishaw
God grant you all your desires and accept my own hearty thanks for all your attention to me. Although indeed, those attentions have tried me more than death can now terrify me.
Jane Grey