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Clive Barker
Clive Barker
English Writer
Born: Oct 5, 1952
Great Me People Think Time You
Related authors: Arthur C. Clarke D. H. Lawrence Douglas Adams Gilbert K. Chesterton John Ruskin Ricky Gervais Rudyard Kipling Thomas Paine
Horror fiction shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion. Clive Barker
Control Believe Every Chaos Purely Horror Oblivion Fiction Us Moment Shows Illusory
All I've ever wanted to do is darken the day and brighten the night. Clive Barker
Day Wanted Brighten Ever Night
'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. Clive Barker
Me Thought Would Taken Done Movie Anything Meaning Producers Away Differently
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. Clive Barker
Cake Building Sweet Neil Kinds Some Wedding Layer Constructs He Demented Like Make Mix Sour Stories Might Cook Including Star
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
Home Me Director Grateful Films Say Draw Telling Insight Horror Rather Horror Films Take Tale Because Narrative End Than Psychological In The End Story Us Skill Filled Exquisitely Spectacle Spectacles
Nobody cares for the product I, and a host of other horror directors, make. Clive Barker
Nobody Cares Other Cares Horror Directors Host Nobody Make Product
I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain. Clive Barker
Good Believe Only Firmly Story Villain
You can plan to be brave - it's even better if you just try to be brave. Clive Barker
You Better Try Be Brave Brave Just Plan Even
As for theatre, there's ups and downs to everything. Theatre is ephemeral. But that is part of its charm because you can always say the production was better than it was. Clive Barker
You Theatre Better Ups And Downs Everything Say Charm Part Because Always Than Ups Ephemeral Production Downs
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
Great Character Design Monsters Atmosphere Come Expert Technician
Books should make somebody look at how they feel, be honest with themselves. Clive Barker
Somebody Books Feel Look Make How Themselves Should Honest
There's a lot of art and comics and movies being paid homage to by game designers. Clive Barker
Art Game Comics Lot Being Movies Paid Homage Designers
Hell is reimagined by every generation. We have to reinvent the worst so that we can reinvent the best. Clive Barker
Best Generation Hell Every Worst Hell Is Reinvent
The thought of making a movie in which the monsters were the good guys was just financial suicide. Clive Barker
Good Financial Thought Suicide Monsters Guys Making Were Just Movie Which Good Guys
My imagination is my polestar; I steer by that. Clive Barker
Imagination Steer
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. Clive Barker
You Experience Anxiety Feeling Evidence Look Sure Certain Should Gather
Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs. Clive Barker
Word First Single Nothing Other Single Word Springs Begins Any Story Place Which Moment Ever
My life is in the art that I make, and I'm very happy with it. Clive Barker
Life Art Happy My Life Make Very
I certainly knew from an early age... how to tell stories; how to create pictures in other people's heads. Clive Barker
Age People Other Tell Knew Pictures Heads How Stories Create Certainly Early Early Age
'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. Clive Barker
Mark High Scarlet Seem General Point Point Of View New Gospels Does Depending Low View Your Consensus
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. Clive Barker
You Better Thought Feeling Feel Days Know Couple Make Been Years Than Going Maybe Anymore Much Many Evening
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. Clive Barker
Thought Made Devil Fold Would Would-Be Pretty About Something Guy Mysterious He Taken Well Him Box Frenchman Island Narrative Been Movie Wanted Happened Place Which Might Figured Who Cool Start Raises
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
Time Best Way Those Possible Possibly Could Had Ticking Always Lot Clock Very Wanted Biggest Aware Things
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. Clive Barker
Life Myself Whatever Otherwise Sideways Would Would-Be Sexual Able About Knock Content Still Surprise Shock Want Whether Theological Even Waste
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. Clive Barker
People Criticism Sold Immediately Critics See No Point Point Had Supposedly Read Because Reviews Denominator Common Common Denominator Movies Lowest Who Showing Therefore Even Serious Disqualified
When I was looking for financing while making 'Hellraiser,' I wish there was a studio like Project Greenlight Digital Studios behind me. Clive Barker
Me Digital Wish Looking Project Financing Studio Studios Like Making Behind While
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