Horror Movie Quotes

“A movie is a collection of beautiful lies that somehow add up to being the truth, or a truth.”
― Paul Tremblay, Horror Movie

“The mask is ugly and grotesque and familiar, and we cannot stop staring at it because all monsters are mirrors.”
― Paul Tremblay, Horror Movie

“Choice being real and an illusion at the same time is a horror.”
― Paul Tremblay, Horror Movie

“I think most of us have our personality, our character, plainly etched in a wordless language on the skins of our faces, as obvious as a bleeding heart on a sleeve.”
― Paul Tremblay, Horror Movie

“But if she wasn’t broken yet, she would be, as the world breaks us all.”
― Paul Tremblay, Horror Movie

“My theory is that we’re in hell. Some of us are demons and some of us make demons because we don’t know what else to do.”
― Paul Tremblay, Horror Movie

“She’d battled and battled hard. But if she wasn’t broken yet, she would be as the world ”
― Paul Tremblay, Horror Movie

“We can't know what he is thinking. We can't know what anyone else is thinking, even when they tell us.”
― Paul Tremblay, Horror Movie

“I reiterate Cleo's claim about finding the mask in the school, which has become part of Horror Movie's folklore cannon, thanks to an interview I did with the website Bloody Disgusting in 2019. I also tell the FX team that I've moved eight times in the years since filming the movie, and each time I tried to leave the mask behind. I tell them moving on is important despite what it is we are doing now with the new version of the movie. I also tell them how after every move, I'd somehow find the mask inside some random box when I unpacked at my new place. I tell them that, most recently, after I'd relocated to L.A., it was in the "kitchen" box, nestled within a covered sauce pan, blank eye holes facing out toward me. I tell them a found object is always cursed.”
― Paul Tremblay, Horror Movie

“I think we laughed, or I choose to remember we laughed. I think we’re in more control of what we remember and what we don’t remember than we assume.”
― Paul Tremblay, Horror Movie

“He is what the mask promised he would become now that he has been baptized in blood.”
― Paul Tremblay, Horror Movie

“People can't help but want their fiction and its players to be real, and they want their reality to follow the comforting rules and beats of fiction.”
― Paul Tremblay, Horror Movie

“Svengoolie was there, Joe Bob Briggs, too, plus a slew of famous”
― Paul Tremblay, Horror Movie

“the brain’s natural state is one of perseveration, not preservation.”
― Paul Tremblay, Horror Movie

“was one of those absurd and perfect bar conversations that young, new friends have, portentously vibrating with perceived and real discovery. I can’t decide if I’m now incapable of such a discussion because I know too much or because life has proven that none of us knows anything.”
― Paul Tremblay, Horror Movie

“The problem when you foolishly think one thing has meaning: you then think everything has meaning.”
― Paul Tremblay, Horror Movie

“I snarled. A snarl is a different kind of smile.”
― Paul Tremblay, Horror Movie

“The mask lacks a presence or essence that is only there when I put it over my head, which is part of its genius. The mask is both vessel and void, and it drudges a vital aspect of the wearer, that it lays bear upon its surface.”
― Paul Tremblay, Horror Movie

“My theory is that we’re in hell. Some of us are demons and some of us make demons because we don’t know what else to do,”
― Paul Tremblay, Horror Movie

“if she wasn’t broken yet, she would be, as the world breaks us all.”
― Paul Tremblay, Horror Movie

“A movie is a collection of beautiful lies that somehow add up to being the truth, or a truth. In this case an ugly one. But the first spoken line in any movie is not a lie and is always the truest.”
― Paul Tremblay, Horror Movie

“people die violently in real life, so they must die violently in our art too.”
― Paul Tremblay, Horror Movie

“Choice being real and an illusion at the same time is a horror. It’s all a wonderful, sublime horror.”
― Paul Tremblay, Horror Movie

“I’m afraid of being someone who could do what the character Cleo does, and I’m afraid of thinking like her, or I’m afraid of thinking like her all the time. I could be wrong, but I think all of us at some point in our lives, especially when we’re teenagers, feel like we want to die, and yet, at the same time, we’re terrified of it. That’s—that’s part of the human condition, right?”
― Paul Tremblay, Horror Movie

“I think we’re in more control of what we remember and what we don’t remember than we assume.”
― Paul Tremblay, Horror Movie

“There’s nothing he could’ve done or can do to stop or change what is coming.”
― Paul Tremblay, Horror Movie

“She’d battled and battled hard. But if she wasn’t broken yet, she would be as the world brakes us all.”
― Paul Tremblay, Horror Movie

“There is no mask. The mask is me.”
― Paul Tremblay, Horror Movie

“After a minute of catch-up chatter, it was clear she’d become an adult, or more adult than me, anyway. The twitchy glances, look-aways, and the we-don’t-know-who-we-are-yet-but-I-hope-other-people-like-me half smiles we were all made of in college had hardened and sharpened into confidence of purpose but not yet disappointment.”
― Paul Tremblay, Horror Movie

“We anticipate. The anticipation is the first horror of this waiting scene.

We brace and we need the release. This is a horror movie, and horror movies have rules, don’t they? We need the fulfilled promise, the validation, even if we think we know what we will see, we still need to see it.

Some of us cover our eyes and peek between fingers. Some of us wince and curl into ourselves. Some of us actively disengage and think about other things because we won’t be able to handle what we’re going to see. Some of us scoff and act like we’ve already seen it all.”
― Paul Tremblay, Horror Movie