Clive Barker Quotes (27 quotes)

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„Though I respect hugely the effort and the care and the beauty of games, I want to be working with people who want to create the 'War & Peace' of games, the 'Citizen Kane' of games, and not just be warming up George Romero.“
― Clive Barker ―
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„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 ―
Picture of quotation author 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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„What I tried to do is deliver movies that have worked for me more than once.“
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„There's a lot of art and comics and movies being paid homage to by game designers.“
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„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 ―
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„I don't like PG-13 horror movies. I think they're a contradiction in terms.“
― Clive Barker ―
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„I certainly knew from an early age... how to tell stories; how to create pictures in other people's heads.“
― Clive Barker ―
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„Books should make somebody look at how they feel, be honest with themselves.“
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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.“
― Clive Barker ―
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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 ―
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„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.“
― Clive Barker ―
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„My imagination is my polestar; I steer by that.“
― Clive Barker ―
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„I've got deeper journeys to take. Metaphysical journeys. Journeys to see Christ. Shaman journeys. It's what I've been elected by God to do.“
― Clive Barker ―
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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.“
― Clive Barker ―
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„I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special.“
― Clive Barker ―
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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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„Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.“
― Clive Barker ―
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„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 ―
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„My life is in the art that I make, and I'm very happy with it.“
― Clive Barker ―

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Clive Barker
Author born: October 05, 1952
Nationality: English
Author Profession: Writer

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