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

" 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'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. "

" Horror fiction shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" The thought of making a movie in which the monsters were the good guys was just financial suicide. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My life is in the art that I make, and I'm very happy with it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Nobody cares for the product I, and a host of other horror directors, make. "

" I love the idea of stories being about great beginnings and terrible endings. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" What I tried to do is deliver movies that have worked for me more than once. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I don't like PG-13 horror movies. I think they're a contradiction in terms. "

" I don't take accusations of selling out lightly. "

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

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

" If there was a horror movie showing somewhere in Liverpool between 1967 and 1975, I saw it. "

" 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. "