Perhaps It Sounds Ridiculous, But The Best

In His Essay On The Uncanny, Das Unheimliche, Freud Said That The Uncanny Is The Only Feeling Which Is More Powerfully Experienced In Art Than In Life. If The Horror Genre Required Any Justification, I Should Think This Alone Would Serve As Its Credentials.

If It Can Be Written, Or Thought, It Can Be Filmed.

You Have Not Yet Learned That In This Life You Have To Be Like Everyone Else: The Perfect Mediocrity--no Better, No Worse. Individuality Is A Monster And It Must Be Strangled In Its Cradle To Make Our Friends Feel Comfortable.

The First Really Important Book I Read About Filmmaking Was The Film Technique By Pudovkin. This Was Some Time Before I Had Ever Touched A Movie Camera And It Opened My Eyes To Cutting And Montage.

New York Was The Only Really Hostile City. Perhaps There Is A Certain Element Of The Lumpen Literati That Is So Dogmatically Atheist And Materialist And Earth-bound That It Finds The Grandeur Of Space And The Myriad Mysteries Of Cosmic Intelligence Anathema.