My father used to say: Every bird is one bird, and every book is one book, and every bird and every book is one thing too, under the words and the feathers." He finished with a flourish, as though the meaning of this was self-evident. 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 nasty angel feelings 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 dream believe art 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 broken names promise ..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 care taken world I've dealt with a lot of producers who were pricks and I'm determined not to be that. Clive Barker determined producers I've always thought that sex and horror belonged together. Clive Barker horror together sex I never want to be the producer that I too often got. Clive Barker producers want All I've ever wanted to do is darken the day and brighten the night. Clive Barker ever day wanted night 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 skill me grateful home Nobody cares for the product I, and a host of other horror directors, make. Clive Barker product nobody nobody-cares horror 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 think proud people thinking 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 design monsters character 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 child you simple god There's a lot of art and comics and movies being paid homage to by game designers. Clive Barker movies game being art 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 feel think fantasy imagination Hell is reimagined by every generation. We have to reinvent the worst so that we can reinvent the best. Clive Barker generation best hell worst 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 me long-time time long The thought of making a movie in which the monsters were the good guys was just financial suicide. Clive Barker just thought good suicide Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work. Clive Barker your you work life
