Terence Fisher famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Certainly Dracula did bring a hell of a lot of joy to a hell of a lot of women. And if this erotic quality hadn't come out we'd have been very disappointed.
-- Terence Fisher

#Halloween #Joy #Quality
We're not as materialistic and income-tax conscious as we think. At the moment our superstitions are tucked away, but come out sometimes in strange ways sex crimes, black masses.
-- Terence Fisher

#Sex #Thinking #Black
There is the danger of over preparation, of loss of spontaneity; over rehearsal is the most terrible thing you can imagine. We do have a very close association between costume and set designer, though. And the cameraman is very important, of course.
-- Terence Fisher

#Loss #Preparation #Important
One blob of red in the wrong place and the audience isn't looking at the hero, they're looking at a patch of curtain (or something similar) and your whole effect is lost.
-- Terence Fisher

#Hero #Red #Patches
The written word is the basic of everything. Most important, the idea, and after that, the dialogue. You can rehash the dialogue as you go along, it 's disgraceful to have to do this, but now and again you have no choice.
-- Terence Fisher

#Ideas #Choices #Important
The reflection of the flame in the glass seems to be touching the hand. And you feel the helpless fear of these dismembered parts. This sort of thing can hardly be visualized at the script stage.
-- Terence Fisher

#Reflection #Flames #Hands
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.
-- Terence Fisher

#Believe #Mind #Facts
Dracula did bring a hell of a lot of joy to a hell of a lot of women.
-- Terence Fisher

#Joy #Hell

This is a comment on fear. Today it's like 'They're going to bomb the New York subway and there's the avian flu and 50 million of us are going to die.' We wanted to make fun of that fear-based culture we've been plunged into. And Halloweens the perfect metaphor for fear.
I actually have a stash of wigs for Halloween. But only for that. Not to play dress-up.
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
Because we build the worlds we wouldn't mind living in. They contain scary things, problems, but also a sense of rightness that makes them alive and makes us want to live there.
As for oblivion, well, we can wait a little while for that.
It's a character that I always found really likable. I'm fond of Zorro because he was a popular figure who worked for the people.
It hasn't even been competitive. That's the first thing we're going to have to do is just find a way to stay competitive because these (first two games) have been over by halftime. We saw that last year too (on Halloween). It was 21-3 (Steelers) at the end of the first quarter.
Joys, which we do not know, we do not wish.
I want to express the utmost intensity of the color, bring out the quality, make it expressive.
We need to create the beauty and the quality first. The quantity will follow.

Terence Fisher famous quotes

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