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" Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work. "
Clive Barker
You
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May
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" 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. "
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" I love the idea of stories being about great beginnings and terrible endings. "
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" 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. "
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" My imagination is my polestar; I steer by that. "
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" My life is in the art that I make, and I'm very happy with it. "
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" 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. "
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Health
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" There was supposedly no point showing 'Nightbreed' to critics because the people who see these movies don't read reviews, in brackets, even if they can read at all! Immediately it was disqualified from serious criticism. Therefore, it had to be sold to the lowest common denominator. "
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" 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. "
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Home
Grateful
Story
" Nobody cares for the product I, and a host of other horror directors, make. "
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Nobody Cares
Nobody
Product
" I certainly knew from an early age... how to tell stories; how to create pictures in other people's heads. "
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Age
Create
" There's a lot of art and comics and movies being paid homage to by game designers. "
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" Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs. "
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Place
Story
Single
" 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. "
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Down
Beast
Movies
" 'The Scarlet Gospels' does, by general consensus, seem to mark a new high - or low, depending on your point of view - in its excessiveness, in its extremities. "
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New
View
Point
" 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. "
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Say
Ups And Downs
You
" 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. "
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Opening
Mother
Remember
" 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. "
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Books
Blood
God
" Pinhead needed to say goodbye. He had a farewell speech to make. It was truly as simple as that. "
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Say
Goodbye
Farewell
" There's a lot of places where the image of a cube as a thing of power is pertinent. I don't know why that is. I don't have any mythic explanation for it, but it seems to work for people. "
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Work
Why
Power
" You can plan to be brave - it's even better if you just try to be brave. "
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Brave
Try
You
" I wanted to fold into the 'Hellraiser' narrative something about the guy - the Frenchman Lemarchand - who made the mysterious box, which raises Pinhead. I figured, 'Well, what would have happened to him?' He might well have been taken to Devil's Island, and I thought that would be a pretty cool place to start the movie. "
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Cool
Him
Place
" We live in the Age of the Next New Thing; we're assaulted day and night by tastemakers telling us what the next hit will be, the next style, the next cool. "
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Live
Age
Day
" Though I respect hugely the effort and the care and the beauty of games, I want to be working with people who want to create the 'War & Peace' of games, the 'Citizen Kane' of games, and not just be warming up George Romero. "
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Beauty
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" Books should make somebody look at how they feel, be honest with themselves. "
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Feel
Books
" The thought of making a movie in which the monsters were the good guys was just financial suicide. "
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Good
Thought
" If there was a horror movie showing somewhere in Liverpool between 1967 and 1975, I saw it. "
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Horror
Movie
" My grandfather was a ship's cook, and he came back from the Far East very often with strange little toys. One of the things he brought back was a puzzle box, which obsessed me for a long time. "
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Puzzle
Me
Long Time
" I'm not the expert on the great gameplay. I come in for the character design, monsters, atmosphere. I'm not the technician. "
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Come
Character
" I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain. "
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Story
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