I'm less of a 'Star Wars' fan, with googley monsters, than actually how do we bend this reality out, and how many other realities exist?

- Blair Brown

Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters.

- Guillermo del Toro

I want to be a vampire. They're the coolest monsters.

- Gerard Way

I also have always liked the monster within idea. I like the zombies being us. Zombies are the blue-collar monsters.

- George A. Romero

There's monsters in all of us, but there's also vulnerability.

- Finn Wittrock

This is what I do for fun - brainstorm about monsters!

- Drew Goddard

I started at Pixar the month 'Monsters Inc.' came out.

- Dan Scanlon

Monsters almost always are culture's way of working out their fears and are thus inherently incredibly interesting and powerful.

- Catherynne M. Valente

I love monsters.

- China Mieville

Sometimes, like in 'Invisible Monsters,' I get too out of control, and instead of a plot point every chapter, I want a plot point in every sentence.

- Chuck Palahniuk

A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.

- Adrienne Rich

The whole psychoanalytical establishment in America at midcentury was geared to make people with homosexual proclivities feel like monsters, moral degenerates.

- Blake Bailey

Villains used to always die in the end. Even the monsters. Frankenstein, Dracula - you'd kill them with a stake. Now the nightmare guy comes back.

- Benicio Del Toro

Monsters just outside our peripheral vision are scarier to contemplate than monsters miles away or in someplace only a fool would set foot in.

- Andrew Pyper

When I was a kid, going to Universal Studios, which was all I wanted to do, all the time, there was a show that was all the monsters, and I loved that show. I was obsessed with Dracula. I was obsessed with Frankenstein. I was obsessed with the Wolfman.

- Alex Kurtzman

There often is a dark secret in books... There is often a gathering sense of dread; there's a gap sometimes in the text from which all kinds of monsters can emerge.

- Anne Enright

I'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from.

- Anne Enright

When I was a lecturer at UC Berkeley, I wrote a book about monsters.

- Annalee Newitz

I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen.

- Anthony Hopkins

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

- Andre Gide