Charles B. Pierce

James Algar

Tod Browning

“The thing you have to be most careful of in a mystery story, is not to let it verge on the comic. If a thing gets too gruesome and too horrible, it gets beyond the limits of the average imagination and the audience laughs. It may sound incongruous, but mystery must be made plausible.”

Jacques Tourneur

“I look for very strong visual unity by using a type of framing and camera movement that is very simple. Everything must come from inside. It mustn’t be superficial. I hate weird camera angles and distorting lenses.”

Ray Harryhausen

“People ask me if I would have used computer graphics today. I may have, I don’t know. There’s a lot of technology now that allows you to view instantly the film you’ve just shot. But I never cared what I had done, I only cared where I was going.”

Roy Ward Baker

“I've always lacked one of the qualities that a film director should have, and that's the sense of intense curiosity in other people's business. If you invited Fellini to a party, he'd get a drink and sit in the corner watching everybody else and making notes.”

Amando de Ossorio

“Things go in a cycle. Sooner or later, someone will make a good horror film again and when they do, everyone will be making horror films.”

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

“I don’t start with a philosophical or thematical approach. Instead I often start with a genre that’s relatively easy to understand and then explore how I want to work in that genre.”

Chuck Jones

[On one of his most famous characters] "The coyote is victimized by his own ineptitude. I never understood how to use tools and that's really the coyote's problem."

Frank Capra

“My advice to young filmmakers is this: Don’t follow trends. Start them!”

Joris Ivens

Jules Bass

Arthur Rankin, Jr.

Edward D. Wood Jr.

“One is always considered mad when one perfects something that others cannot grasp.”

Kenji Misumi

John A. Russo

Tom Savini

“I think of special effects as magic tricks, as illusion. ”

Roman Polanski

“You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity.”

Ted V. Mikels

“Always as an independent. I've done a lot of things for other people, but not the major studios. You've gotta have an 'in.'”

Terence Fisher

“Do I believe in the supernatural? Oh yes, certainly. I can’t believe, I can’t accept that you die and that’s the end. Physically maybe it is a fact. But there’s something about the mind that’s more than that.”