I thought of the analyst Winnicott's observation: 'It is a joy to be hidden but disaster not to be found'.
Not knowing the thing that’s chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you
It's always about finding the right balance between answering some questions and raising new ones to keep your story going.
The less people know about 'Paranormal Activity,' the more they enjoy it.
After I watched 'The Exorcist' I refused to watch any other movie that had anything to do with ghosts or demons. I didn't even watch 'Ghostbusters' until I was much older.
Even if you look at the 'Paranormal Activity' movies, at the end of the movie things get really crazy and nutty, but they all start in a very mundane situation that people can relate to, and that's also to some degree what we tried to do in 'Chernobyl Diaries.
Our lives are pretty calm. Merging on the freeway in the closest you get to risking your life. So what’s missing now is that primal emotion of being scared to death, and I think that’s why people crave thrills like roller coasters or scary movies. They give you the chance to feel this very primal emotion in a very controlled environment.
That older and greater church to which I belong: the church where the oftener you laugh the better, because by laughter only can you destroy evil without malice
The Lewis and Clark tale has all the all the elements that one would want to put into a movie. It has the, continual threat for life; it's got the thread of Indians; it's got disease. It has daily risk where these men may go under the water. It's got the fight with the elements. It's got the el the role of the unknown continually threatening them.
Song brings of itself a cheerfulness that wakes the heart of joy.
When you say words a lot they don't mean anything. Or maybe they don't mean anything anyway, and we just think they do.