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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Open
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to think that you'd open the door, and there was Narnia. Increasingly, I think it's all around us.
- Horror
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there was a horror movie showing somewhere in Liverpool between 1967 and 1975, I saw it.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Horror
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Dog
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
My imagination is my polestar; I steer by that.
- Normal
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't take accusations of selling out lightly.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I certainly knew from an early age... how to tell stories; how to create pictures in other people's heads.
- Got
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not the expert on the great gameplay. I come in for the character design, monsters, atmosphere. I'm not the technician.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a lot of art and comics and movies being paid homage to by game designers.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hell is reimagined by every generation. We have to reinvent the worst so that we can reinvent the best.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Blood
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- Nov 07, 2020
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'.
- Cries
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
'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.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
Pinhead needed to say goodbye. He had a farewell speech to make. It was truly as simple as that.
- Devil
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Pretty
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 'Hellraiser' situation was pretty darn wonderful and very unusual. Nor did I understand how radically unusual the thesis of 'Nightbreed' was.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
'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.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thought of making a movie in which the monsters were the good guys was just financial suicide.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was looking for financing while making 'Hellraiser,' I wish there was a studio like Project Greenlight Digital Studios behind me.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020