Clive Barker quotes - page 5

Clive Barker is an English author, film director, and visual artist known for his work in horror and fantasy. His stories often blend the grotesque with the fantastical, creating immersive worlds that challenge the boundaries of imagination. He has influenced modern horror with groundbreaking works like “Books of Blood” and the creation of the “Hellraiser” franchise. Here are 121 of his quotes:

Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.

Clive Barker

You can plan to be brave - it's even better if you just try to be brave.

Clive Barker

What I tried to do is deliver movies that have worked for me more than once.

Clive Barker

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.

Clive Barker

Books should make somebody look at how they feel, be honest with themselves.

Clive Barker

I don't take accusations of selling out lightly.

Clive Barker

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.

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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.

Clive Barker

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

...Take this all of you and eat it. This is my body which will be given up for you... Old words; old rituals. But they still made sound commercial sense. Talk of Power and Might would always attract an audience. Lords never went out of fashion.

Clive Barker

Shadwell?” said Suzanna. "Their beloved Prophet,” came the reply. "Beneath that show of holiness I lent him there beats a salesman's heart.” So Shadwell was the Prophet. What a perfect irony, that the seller of encyclopedias should end up peddling hope. "It was his idea,” said the Incantatrix, "to give them a Messiah. Now they've got a righteous crusade, as Hobart calls it. They're going to claim their promised land. And destroy it in the process.” "They won't fall for this.” "They already have, sister. Holy wars are easier to start than rumors among your Kind or mine. They believe every sacred word he tells them, as though their lives depended upon it. Which in a sense they do. They've been conspired against and cheated-and they're ready to tear the Fugue apart to get their hands on those responsible. Isn't that perfect? The Fugue'll die at the very hands of those who've come to save it.” "And that's what Shadwell wants?

Clive Barker

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.

Clive Barker

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.

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I don't like PG-13 horror movies. I think they're a contradiction in terms.

Clive Barker

I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special.

Clive Barker

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.

Clive Barker

My life is in the art that I make, and I'm very happy with it.

Clive Barker

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.

Clive Barker