English - Writer | October 5, 1952 -
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
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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.
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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.
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I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain.
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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 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.
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All I've ever wanted to do is darken the day and brighten the night.
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Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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