Joseph Stefano

“We are all in our private traps, clamped in them, and none of us can ever get out. We scratch and we claw, but only at the air, only at each other, and for all of it, we never budge an inch.”

“A boy's best friend is his mother.”

“There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission.”

“Horror is an emotion, not a genre.”

“I didn't want the audience to feel safe. I wanted them to know that anything could happen.”

“It was a story about a man who was madly in love with his mother. That’s what it was really about.”

“There is nothing wrong with you. It is the world that is twisted.”

“A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.”