Clive Barker – Quotes

I never want to

I never want to be the producer that I too often got. Clive Barker

I’ve dealt with a

I’ve dealt with a lot of producers who were pricks and I’m determined not to be that. Clive Barker

I think that horror

I think that horror fiction is one of the ways to approach these problems of death. Clive Barker

Perhaps sunlight had always

Perhaps sunlight had always been luminous, and doorways signs of greater passage than that of one room to another. But she’d not noticed it until now. Clive Barker

Whatever capacity she possesses

Whatever capacity she possesses to supernaturally beguile a human soul—and she possesses many—she liked his clear-sightedness too well, to blind him that way. Clive Barker

For a writer, and

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

As for theatre, there’s

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. Clive Barker

We have great cities to visit: New York and Washington, Paris and London; and further east, and older than any of these, the legendary city of Samarkand, whose crumbling palaces and mosques still welcome travelers on the Silk road. Weary of cities? Then we’ll take to the wilds. To the islands of Hawaii and the … Read more

I don’t take accusations

I don’t take accusations of selling out lightly. Clive Barker

In this sense love

In this sense love is of a different order to any other phenomenon, for it may be both an event and a sign of that invisible mechanism I spoke of before; perhaps the finest sign, the most certain. In it’s throes we need neither luck nor science. We are the wheel, and the man who … Read more