Clive Barker Quotes

I've never worked where it was hard to be gay. Besides, being gay is a spectacular irrelevance to getting on with your life.

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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.

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

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As for Clive Barker -- he spent virtually all day with his fans. First at an autograph session that went on far longer than it was scheduled to for the simple reason that the accomplished horror master took the time to converse with each and every fan like he was visiting with an old friend. Having interviewed Barker on a number of occasions I can attest to his warmth as an interview subject. On one occasion my cameraman was late due to traffic so Barker suggested we head down to the bar in the downtown Hilton Hotel for a drink where he proceeded to sign a copy of one of his books for me, not just sign it, but sketch an original piece of his unique artwork on the blank reverse side of the title page. Today he was cheerful and happy to be among his fans and readers. I do love these events, ... It is a chance to interact in a direct and personal way. So when I do agree to attend such an event, I wholeheartedly throw myself headlong into it.

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Gather experience. . . Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence that you should do this. Barker performed a disection at a funeral home, for the sake of understanding death at close hand.

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The loss only shows how far backwards we have gone in Africa, ... But all we can do now is to roll back our sleeves and make changes and look forward to the future.

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I wrote none of these books. I made none of these films. Nor drew the drawings, nor opined at such length on death, sex and the human condition.

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To you who have never died, may I say Welcome to the world

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It's irritating, because I would like to make movies that were as unrelenting and as explicit in their metaphysical, sexual and violent imagery as the stories. But with the way censorship is at present, there's no way you can do that.

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You cut up a thing that's alive and beautiful to find out how it's alive and why it's beautiful, and before you know it, it's neither of those things, and you're standing there with blood on your face and tears in your sight and only the terrible ache of guilt to show for it.

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'And we'll watch and photograph you for ten years after you die, then we'll run the film.' Wouldn't that be extraordinary We'd watch this thing get bigger and bigger, and flower to become extraordinary and beautiful, then watch it crumble, decay rot.

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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.

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Nothing is fixed. In and out the shuttle goes, fact and fiction, mind and matter, woven into patterns that may have only this in common that hidden amongst them is a filigree which will with time become a world.

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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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My imagination is my polestar I steer by that.

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Here is a list of fearful thingsThe jaws of sharks, a vulture's wings,The rabid bite of the dog's of war,The voice of one who went before.But most of all the mirror's gaze,which counts us out our numbered days.

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I do love these events. It is a chance to interact in a direct and personal way. So when I do agree to attend such an event, I wholeheartedly throw myself headlong into it.

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

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

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Before all that, however, Barker was the founder of and a director with a small theater troupe in London. The troupe staged Frankenstein in Love ... The History of the Devil.

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Gather experience... Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence that you should do this.

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At best you can hold death at bay, you can pretend it isn't there but to deny it totally is a sickness. And I think that horror fiction is one of the ways to approach these problems, and, perversely perhaps, to enjoy a vicarious confrontation with them.

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Whale was gay, I'm gay Whale was English, I'm English. Whale made some horror movies, and I've made some horror movies. It seemed as if I should be helping to tell this story.

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

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There was time for all their miracles now. For ghosts and transformations for passion and ambiguity for noon-day visions and midnight glory. Time in abundance. For nothing ever begins. And this story, having no beginning, will have no end.

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