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" If there was a horror movie showing somewhere in Liverpool between 1967 and 1975, I saw it. "
Clive Barker
Liverpool
Horror
Movie
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" My life is in the art that I make, and I'm very happy with it. "
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" Pinhead needed to say goodbye. He had a farewell speech to make. It was truly as simple as that. "
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" '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. "
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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. "
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" I don't take accusations of selling out lightly. "
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" 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. "
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" The 'Hellraiser' situation was pretty darn wonderful and very unusual. Nor did I understand how radically unusual the thesis of 'Nightbreed' was. "
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" 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. "
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Best
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" The thought of making a movie in which the monsters were the good guys was just financial suicide. "
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" 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. "
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Die
Own
" 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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" There's a lot of art and comics and movies being paid homage to by game designers. "
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Lot
" 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. "
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Time
Support
Great
" 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'. "
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Being
Vision
World
" Hell is reimagined by every generation. We have to reinvent the worst so that we can reinvent the best. "
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Generation
Hell
" I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain. "
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Story
Only
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
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Got
Christ
God
" I used to think that you'd open the door, and there was Narnia. Increasingly, I think it's all around us. "
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Used
" '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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View
Point
" 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. "
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Imagination
" I certainly knew from an early age... how to tell stories; how to create pictures in other people's heads. "
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" 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. "
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Experience
Feeling
" I don't like PG-13 horror movies. I think they're a contradiction in terms. "
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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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Serious
Movies
" I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special. "
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Nothing
Special
Whatever
" What I tried to do is deliver movies that have worked for me more than once. "
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Movies
Deliver
Me
" 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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