Clive Barker Quotes

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Clive Barker

Profession : Writer

Birth : October 5, 1952

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.

Clive Barker

'Underworld' was my first filmed book. I think there are about seven of my lines in it.

Clive Barker

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

Clive Barker

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.

Clive Barker

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.

Clive Barker

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.

Clive Barker

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

Clive Barker

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

Clive Barker

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

Clive Barker

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

Clive Barker

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.

Clive Barker

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.

Clive Barker

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

Clive Barker

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

Clive Barker

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

Clive Barker

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

Clive Barker