Daily Inspiration Quote by Margot Kidder

Hollywood loves a haunting because it’s cheaper than honesty. Margot Kidder’s quote punctures the carefully manufactured mystique that often gets stapled onto genre projects, especially anything even vaguely supernatural. She’s not recounting a chilling anecdote; she’s exposing an instruction: “we were told to say it had.” That passive phrasing matters. It places the “spooky stuff” not in the realm of the unknowable but in the realm of the managed, a corporate decision delivered from above and repeated at the mic.

The subtext is about labor and control as much as it is about truth. Actors are hired bodies and faces, but also hired storytellers for an off-screen narrative that sells tickets. Kidder frames the press conference like a second set, with “writers” performing their own script about “terrible things that supposedly happened.” The word “supposedly” is her quiet blade: it acknowledges the audience’s appetite for myth while refusing to validate it.

Contextually, this taps into a long tradition of “cursed production” lore used to turn a movie into an event, to give entertainment the varnish of risk and consequence. Kidder’s candor flips the genre trope inside out: the real horror isn’t paranormal activity, it’s the publicity machine deciding what you’re allowed to claim you experienced. The line lands because it’s mundane. No demons, no omens, just an industry that treats authenticity as optional and narrative as mandatory.