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" I certainly knew from an early age... how to tell stories; how to create pictures in other people's heads. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Teaming up with Adaptive Studios and Shudder is a wonderful opportunity to support emerging filmmakers in finding the new horror icon. This is also a great chance to scare and entertain audiences at the same time. "

" 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. "

" When I was looking for financing while making 'Hellraiser,' I wish there was a studio like Project Greenlight Digital Studios behind me. "

" All I've ever wanted to do is darken the day and brighten the night. "

" Some people think that horror films are some sort of second class filmmaking, and the only way to bypass that thinking is being proud of the fact that we do it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You can plan to be brave - it's even better if you just try to be brave. "

" 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. "

" There's a lot of art and comics and movies being paid homage to by game designers. "

" Books should make somebody look at how they feel, be honest with themselves. "

" 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. "

" Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs. "

" 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'. "

" 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. "

" I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain. "

" 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. "

" I used to think that you'd open the door, and there was Narnia. Increasingly, I think it's all around us. "

" 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. "

" Hell is reimagined by every generation. We have to reinvent the worst so that we can reinvent the best. "

" Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "