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

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" 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. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" '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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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