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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" '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. "