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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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" The 'Hellraiser' situation was pretty darn wonderful and very unusual. Nor did I understand how radically unusual the thesis of 'Nightbreed' was. "

" My imagination is my polestar; I steer by that. "

" 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. "

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

" 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'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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm not the expert on the great gameplay. I come in for the character design, monsters, atmosphere. I'm not the technician. "

" 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. "

" 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'. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" '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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm feeling much better than I have been for many years. You know, I... there have been a couple of days when I thought maybe I wasn't going to make it to the evening. I don't feel that anymore. "

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