Leigh Whannell famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I remember telling ghost stories with my cousins when I was four, five, six-years-old. I've just always loved it. But I think you're drawn to things you're terrified of.
-- Leigh Whannell

#Cousin #Thinking #Ghost
I love watching audiences scream. I imagine it's the same joy that a director feels who has made a comedy when he or she is sitting at the back of a theater listening to the audience laugh. That sound of laughter is so sweet to a comedy director and that's exactly how a horror film feels when you hear the audience scream.
-- Leigh Whannell

#Sweet #Laughter #Laughing
Horror films are very functional like comedies. The main thing with a comedy, the big question is "is it funny?" And with horror the question is "is it scary?"
-- Leigh Whannell

#Scary #Comedy #Horror
The problem with acting is that there's really no control. You're at the behest of others. Everyone else decides if you did a good job and you have to wait for other people's permission to work as an actor.
-- Leigh Whannell

#Jobs #People #Waiting
What I love about writing is that you don't need anyone's permission to do it. You can just get up in the morning, grab a pad and pen and start writing. With acting you're really beholden to everyone else.
-- Leigh Whannell

#Morning #Writing #Acting

You'd better not be trying to steal that," she said. The boy shrugged and reached for the small rolling suitcase at her feet. "I wouldn't dare." "Because I'm an excellent yeller." "I don't doubt it." "And fighter. My cousin gave me this nail file... the thing's just like a switchblade.
Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
Our God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are too limited.
Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.
Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...
I don't believe in ghosts but they blindly believe in me
My mother would say it is literally ghost writers who come to me.
We are ghosts, hungry for something bigger than what our lips are kissing.
O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast.

Leigh Whannell famous quotes

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