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" Neil Gaiman is a star. He constructs stories like some demented cook might make a wedding cake, building layer upon layer, including all kinds of sweet and sour in the mix. "

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" 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. "

Clive Barker

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" 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. "

" '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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Pinhead needed to say goodbye. He had a farewell speech to make. It was truly as simple as that. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

Clive Barker

Imagination

Steer

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" For a writer, and particularly a writer of my genre, which is the fantastical, I think that it's to my advantage to feel remote from and disconnected from the world of deal making. "

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

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

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

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

Clive Barker

Movies

Deliver

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

" 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. "