Clive Barker

I certainly knew from an early age... how to tell stories; how to create pictures in other people's heads. ”

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

Interestingly, although the 'Books of Blood' were greeted with cries of righteous horror - and smirks - I didn't think of them as being particularly excessive. God knows what I did think was excessive at the time, but I didn't think they were. ”

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. ”

My imagination is my polestar; I steer by that. ”

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. ”

There's a lot of places where the image of a cube as a thing of power is pertinent. I don't know why that is. I don't have any mythic explanation for it, but it seems to work for people. ”

I'm not the expert on the great gameplay. I come in for the character design, monsters, atmosphere. I'm not the technician. ”