Quotes by Clive Barker

About Clive Barker:

Clive Barker is an English writer, film director, and visual artist best known for his work in both fantasy and horror fiction. Barker came to prominence in the mid-1980s with a series of short stories known as the Books of Blood which established him as a leading young horror writer. He has since written many novels and other works, and his fiction has been adapted into films, notably the Hellraiser and Candyman series. He was the Executive Producer of the film Gods and Monsters, which won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
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I don't like to make a distinction between the writer and the painter , finally , because I do both things anyway . Everybody's dreaming and trying to put down their dreams in the way that their hand knows best . I feel as much a unity , as much comr...

Clive Barker

I don't like crowds of any kind. A dinner party of more than six people is not, for me, a pleasure. I get less social as I get older... I am very resistant to anything that keeps me away from the business of making these journeys into the fantastique...

Clive Barker

One man's pornography is another man's theology.

Clive Barker

Writing about the unholy is one way of writing about what is sacred.

Clive Barker

Women are these wonderful mysteries and they excite me on all kinds of levels. Their power over us is, I think, often a moral power as well as a sexual power. I think women, generally speaking, have a better sense of what is whole and good and sensib...

Clive Barker

Let us not neglect the forbidden. Let us not sophisticate ourselves out of the cheap thrill and chill of it: the story told for perversity's sake, and all the better for that; the image created because an artist gets tired of reasons sometimes, and w...

Clive Barker

Zombies are the liberal nightmare. Here you have the masses, whom you would love to love, appearing at your front door with their faces falling off; and you’re trying to be as humane as you possibly can, but they are, after all, eating the cat. And...

Clive Barker

Zombies are the ideal late twentieth-century monsters. A zombie is the one thing you can't deal with. It survives anything. Frankenstein's monster and Dracula could be sent down in so many ways. Zombies, though, fall outside all this. You can't argue...

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

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I don't like PG-13 horror movies. I think they're a contradiction in terms.

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Author Bio

  • NameClive Barker
  • Descriptionauthor, film director and visual artist
  • BornOctober 5, 1952
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionFilm Director; Novelist; Writer; Screenwriter; Film Producer; Actor; Playwright; Designer; Painter; Illustrator
  • AwardsLambda Literary Award