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" All I've ever wanted to do is darken the day and brighten the night. "
Wanted
Ever
Day
" As for theatre, there's ups and downs to everything. Theatre is ephemeral. But that is part of its charm because you can always say the production was better than it was. "
Say
Ups And Downs
You
" Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work. "
You
Your
May
" Books should make somebody look at how they feel, be honest with themselves. "
Honest
Feel
Books
" For a writer, and particularly a writer of my genre, which is the fantastical, I think that it's to my advantage to feel remote from and disconnected from the world of deal making. "
Feel
Think
World
" Gather experience... Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence that you should do this. "
Look
Experience
Feeling
" Hell is reimagined by every generation. We have to reinvent the worst so that we can reinvent the best. "
Best
Generation
Hell
" 'Hellraiser' was what 'Hellraiser' was. It was a $900k movie, and there wasn't anything I would have done differently. But 'Nightbreed' was taken away from me. It was thought that its meaning wasn't... Its meaning didn't chime with the producers. "
Done
Away
Me
" Horror fiction shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion. "
Moment
Horror
Control
" I certainly knew from an early age... how to tell stories; how to create pictures in other people's heads. "
People
Age
Create
" I don't feel there's any reason to apologise for having a wicked imagination. I think it's important as a maker of fantasy and of horror. "
Think
Horror
Imagination
" I don't like PG-13 horror movies. I think they're a contradiction in terms. "
Horror
Horror Movies
Movies
" I don't take accusations of selling out lightly. "
Out
Selling
Lightly
" I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain. "
Good
Story
Only
" If there was a horror movie showing somewhere in Liverpool between 1967 and 1975, I saw it. "
Liverpool
Horror
Movie
" I have a vision of the world as being a lot darker, perhaps, than I did when I was 31 and wrote the 'Books of Blood'. "
Being
Vision
World
" I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special. "
Nothing
Special
Whatever
" I love meeting people who've read my books. The prime reason to be on the planet is to make things I can show to other people: paintings, books, movies. "
Meeting
Love
I Can
" I love the idea of stories being about great beginnings and terrible endings. "
Terrible
Endings
Great
" I'm a gay man, living an out life for a long time, and it's tiring and anger-making to hear people continue to spit out the same old dreary cliches about the fact that gay men are doing something unnatural, and there'll be a price to pay when the Rapture happens. "
People
Men
Long
" I'm a great dog fanatic. My own dog died a little while ago and I take it very personally when things die - it's a major offence. "
Dog
Die
Own
" I'm feeling much better than I have been for many years. You know, I... there have been a couple of days when I thought maybe I wasn't going to make it to the evening. I don't feel that anymore. "
Know
Evening
Better
" I'm not the expert on the great gameplay. I come in for the character design, monsters, atmosphere. I'm not the technician. "
Design
Come
Character
" Interestingly, although the 'Books of Blood' were greeted with cries of righteous horror - and smirks - I didn't think of them as being particularly excessive. God knows what I did think was excessive at the time, but I didn't think they were. "
Books
Blood
God
" I remember when I watched 'Hellraiser' with my mother. She cried when she saw my name in the opening credits, and I had to tell her that that was the happiest she was going to be for the next two hours. "
Opening
Mother
Remember
" I say 'spectacle' rather than 'story' because in the end, it isn't the intricacies of narrative that draw us to horror films. When it's there, I'm grateful for the director's skill at telling an exquisitely nuanced tale filled with psychological insight, but it is the spectacles that I take home with me. "
Home
Grateful
Story
" I think I'm less and less labelled a 'horror writer'. The books tend not to go on horror shelves any more, and when they do, I tend to take them off. "
Think
Off
Horror
" It is great good health to believe, as the Hindus do, that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great good health to want to understand one's dreams. It is great good health to desire the ambiguous and paradoxical. "
Great
Health
Dreams
" It is the creature that stands at the center of horror movies, not those who have made it their business to bring the beast down. We're all the same. "
Down
Beast
Movies
" I used to think that you'd open the door, and there was Narnia. Increasingly, I think it's all around us. "
You
Door
Used
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