Clive Barker Quotes


"You can plan to be brave - it's even better if you just try to be brave."
- Clive Barker
"Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs."
- Clive Barker
(Related: First, Nothing, Word)

"It is great good health to believe, as the Hindus do, that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great good health to want to understand one's dreams. It is great good health to desire the ambiguous and paradoxical."
- Clive Barker
(Related: Health, Dreams, Gods, Desire, Want, World)

"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
"I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special."
- Clive Barker
(Related: Nothing)

"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."
- Clive Barker
(Related: Experience, Anxiety, Feeling)

"Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work."
- Clive Barker
(Related: Work, Life, May)

"What I tried to do is deliver movies that have worked for me more than once."
- Clive Barker
(Related: Movies)