In my opinion, the horror genre is a perfect genre for Christians to be involved with. I think the more compelling question is, Why do so many Christians find it odd that a Christian would be working in this genre? Scott Derrickson Read Quote
There are some people who shouldn’t watch horror films, and I’m all right with that. Scott Derrickson Read Quote
My interest in the comic goes back a long time, because I grew up reading comics, mostly Marvel Comics, and I always loved ‘Doctor Strange’ uniquely. It was the presence of the fantastical, the presence of the supernatural that was in it. The idea of magic. Scott Derrickson Read Quote
Fundamentalism is such a pejorative word and immediately evokes images of angry extremism. In my experience, that’s not usually what it looks like. I was a fundamentalist in high school. Scott Derrickson Read Quote
I went to a fundamentalist Christian high school and went to a fundamentalist church, and they were the greatest people; there was an amazing sense of community. The problem is when the messiness of real life enters, and the inflexibility of a moral code cannot cope with the realities of moral relativism. Scott Derrickson Read Quote
I love the comics so much, and I grew up reading Marvel Comics. And Doctor Strange is my favorite comic book character – probably, I think honestly, the only comic book I would feel personally suited to work on. Scott Derrickson Read Quote
I can’t help but view the world mystically. It’s how I see it. I’m not a strict materialist. I think there’s much more to the world than what we see with our five senses. Scott Derrickson Read Quote
We’re all capable of being more than we presently are, and the effort that it takes and the will that it takes and sometimes the trauma and tragedy that it takes to force us into that kind of growth is the story of our lives. Scott Derrickson Read Quote
In my horror movies, I was always trying to deal with real characters and real character drama played by good actors… Laura Linney, Ethan Hawke, Eric Bana, and Tom Wilkinson, people who don’t do horror normally. Scott Derrickson Read Quote
Trauma and pain and suffering can be the very thing that dislodges a person from themselves both in awful ways and larger ways that force one to reckon with one’s own life. Scott Derrickson Read Quote
