457 Quotes by Clive Barker

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.

Hell is reimagined by every generation. We have to reinvent the worst so that we can reinvent the best.

If there was a horror movie showing somewhere in Liverpool between 1967 and 1975, I saw it.

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.

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.

When I was looking for financing while making 'Hellraiser,' I wish there was a studio like Project Greenlight Digital Studios behind me.

The thought of making a movie in which the monsters were the good guys was just financial suicide.

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.

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.