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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" '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. "