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" Hell is reimagined by every generation. We have to reinvent the worst so that we can reinvent the best. "
Clive Barker
Best
Generation
Hell
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" We actually say in 'Nightbreed,' 'God is an astronaut, Oz is over the rainbow, and Midian is where the monsters go.' There's a lovely sense in which there's a simple thesis being played out here. These are things you understand as a child out on the play yard. "
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You
Rainbow
" There's a lot of art and comics and movies being paid homage to by game designers. "
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" You can plan to be brave - it's even better if you just try to be brave. "
Clive Barker
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Try
You
" 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. "
Clive Barker
Home
Grateful
Story
" What I tried to do is deliver movies that have worked for me more than once. "
Clive Barker
Movies
Deliver
Me
" 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. "
Clive Barker
Say
Ups And Downs
You
" I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain. "
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Story
Only
" 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. "
Clive Barker
People
Men
Long
" 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. "
Clive Barker
Puzzle
Me
Long Time
" Books should make somebody look at how they feel, be honest with themselves. "
Clive Barker
Honest
Feel
Books
" All I've ever wanted to do is darken the day and brighten the night. "
Clive Barker
Wanted
Ever
Day
" Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs. "
Clive Barker
Place
Story
Single
" 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. "
Clive Barker
Great
Health
Dreams
" 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. "
Clive Barker
Look
Experience
Feeling
" Horror fiction shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion. "
Clive Barker
Moment
Horror
Control
" 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. "
Clive Barker
Dog
Die
Own
" Pinhead needed to say goodbye. He had a farewell speech to make. It was truly as simple as that. "
Clive Barker
Say
Goodbye
Farewell
" '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. "
Clive Barker
New
View
Point
" 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. "
Clive Barker
Opening
Mother
Remember
" 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. "
Clive Barker
See
Serious
Movies
" The thought of making a movie in which the monsters were the good guys was just financial suicide. "
Clive Barker
Financial
Good
Thought
" I've got deeper journeys to take. Metaphysical journeys. Journeys to see Christ. Shaman journeys. It's what I've been elected by God to do. "
Clive Barker
Got
Christ
God
" I want to be able to still surprise myself, even shock myself, whether it be sexual content, whether it be about the theological content, whatever. I want to be able to knock myself sideways. Otherwise, what a waste of a life that would be. "
Clive Barker
Life
Content
Myself
" My life is in the art that I make, and I'm very happy with it. "
Clive Barker
Life
Very
Art
" My imagination is my polestar; I steer by that. "
Clive Barker
Imagination
Steer
" I certainly knew from an early age... how to tell stories; how to create pictures in other people's heads. "
Clive Barker
People
Age
Create
" I was always aware of the ticking clock of time, always. I was very aware that I had a lot to do, and I wanted to do those things in the best possible way that I could and probably the biggest way I possibly could. "
Clive Barker
Possible
Best
Clock
" Nobody cares for the product I, and a host of other horror directors, make. "
Clive Barker
Nobody Cares
Nobody
Product
" One of the things I'm trying to do over and over again in my books is create new mythologies, create new ways to understand the complexity of the world. I think what mythology does is impress upon chaotic experience the patterns, hierarchies and shapes which allow us to interpret the chaos and make fresh sense of it. "
Clive Barker
Experience
World
Trying
" 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. "
Clive Barker
Work
Why
Power