Clive Barker Quotes

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• You can plan to be brave - it's even better if you just try to be brave.
• I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special.
• 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.
• Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.
• Mutilation is the badge that can never be taken off, and sets us apart from all others. Pain is important to the bonding-a physical horror…
• 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.
• You just have to trust your own madness.
• If you want to look like the people next door, you're probably smothering yourself into your dreams.
• The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to my eye very beautiful. I've also…
• My imagination is my polestar; I steer by that.
• I was a weird little kid. I was very irritable, bored, frustrated. I felt my imagination bubbling inside my head without having any way to…
• What I tried to do is deliver movies that have worked for me more than once.
• I've always thought that the most extraordinary special effect you could do is to buy a child at the moment of its birth, sit it…
• A monster lies in wait in me,a stew of wounds and misery.But fiercer still in life and limb,the me that lies in wait in him
• Everything is in flux: everything changes; the body changes, the soul changes. We are capable of extraordinary self-transmutat ion and internal self-transforma tion.
• Make your own worlds. Make your own laws. Make your own creations, your own star systems. Don't feel answerable to anyone, or as though you…
• All I ever wanted to do is darken the day and brighten the night
• But I think humans are innately religious as a species, so you don't need a specific excuse for examining the perversely unholy.
• You must be careful with kindness. It's usually mistaken for weakness by stupid people.
• I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain.

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