You can't negotiate with a zombie. They have only one impulse - that's to eat us or our brains.
With the Romero zombie, you usually did not have a reason for the infection, the plague, the virus, whatever it's called.
With slow-moving zombies, what always comes at stake is our humanity.
Vampires have become tragic or romantic figures. Vampire are largely seduction tales. They're no longer the scary creature in the dark.
There's no purer feeling in the world than being scared.
The whole 'starting with stories, ending with novels' thing, it's probably too ingrained in the industry and the psyche to change it.
The slasher film is such a neat, self-contained genre.
The short story, it's not a step on the way to becoming a novelist.
Some people are born for Halloween, and some are just counting the days until Christmas.
People shouldn't go broke making a haunted house. Or, we should pay for our enjoyment, definitely.
Most zombie stories, the problems they solve are not the actual zombies. The problems they solve are the human interactions.
In the fast zombie stories, it's not our humanity that is at stake anymore. It's our survival.
I would highly, highly recommend seeing 'Paranormal Activity' with a friend or, better yet, a group.
I think America would do anything through a drive-through.
I figure anytime you put an adjective before 'writer,' it's a way of dismissing the writer.
I feel very at home in L.A., I think, because it's dry, and there's sun, like the West Texas I grew up in.
Horror, of all the genres, is the only one that can provoke an involuntary visceral reaction.
Hannibal Lecter stole Leatherface's mask and ported the slasher conventions into the thriller for the early '90s.
