If you want to look like the people next door, you're probably smothering yourself into your dreams. Clive Barker More Quotes by Clive Barker More Quotes From Clive Barker Angels have very nasty tempers. Especially when they’re feeling righteous. Clive Barker nastyangelfeelings 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. It is sickness of the profoundest kind to believe that there is one reality. There is sickness in any piece of work or any piece of art seriously attempting to suggest that the idea that there is more than one reality is somehow redundant. Clive Barker dreambelieveart Of all the rash and midnight promises made in the name of love, none, Boone now knew, was more certain to be broken than "I'll never leave you. Clive Barker brokennamespromise ..which should teach you something about this world. That it's a place where whatever you work for and care about is bound to be taken away from you sooner or later, and there isn't a thing you can do about it. Clive Barker caretakenworld I've dealt with a lot of producers who were pricks and I'm determined not to be that. Clive Barker determinedproducers I've always thought that sex and horror belonged together. Clive Barker horrortogethersex I never want to be the producer that I too often got. Clive Barker producerswant All I've ever wanted to do is darken the day and brighten the night. Clive Barker everdaywantednight 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 skillmegratefulhome Nobody cares for the product I, and a host of other horror directors, make. Clive Barker productnobodynobody-careshorror 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 thinkproudpeoplethinking 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 greatdesignmonsterscharacter 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. Clive Barker childyousimplegod There's a lot of art and comics and movies being paid homage to by game designers. Clive Barker moviesgamebeingart 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 feelthinkfantasyimagination Hell is reimagined by every generation. We have to reinvent the worst so that we can reinvent the best. Clive Barker generationbesthellworst 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. Clive Barker melong-timetimelong The thought of making a movie in which the monsters were the good guys was just financial suicide. Clive Barker justthoughtgoodsuicide Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work. Clive Barker youryouworklife
