Jimmy Sangster

“The first Frankenstein... I made the monster the victim. That was new.”

“You don't need a lot of money to make a good film. You need a good story.”

“Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee could read the phone book and make it sound menacing.”

“I always said the writer should have the first and the last word. The last word is 'no'.”

“The censors were our biggest help. The more they cut, the more the public wanted to see what was left.”

“We were a family at Hammer. A slightly dysfunctional family, but a family nonetheless.”

“I didn't invent horror. I was just the first person to write it in color.”

“Horror is the depiction of the unimaginable. Suspense is the suggestion of the unimaginable.”

“The key to a good thriller is to have the audience on the edge of their seat, not hiding behind it.”

“I write suspense. If it's bloody, it's bloody. I don't write 'horror'. Horror is a fly-blown piece of entrails hanging on a meat hook. Suspense is a waiting game.”

“I was just a jobbing writer who happened to fall into a niche.”