If there was a horror movie showing somewhere in Liverpool between 1967 and 1975, I saw it.
I don't like PG-13 horror movies. I think they're a contradiction in terms.
It is the creature that stands at the center of horror movies, not those who have made it their business to bring the beast down. We're all the same.
Horror fiction shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.
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'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.
I think I'm less and less labelled a 'horror writer'. The books tend not to go on horror shelves any more, and when they do, I tend to take them off.
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.
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.
Nobody cares for the product I, and a host of other horror directors, make.
Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.
We actually say in 'Nightbreed,' 'God is an astronaut, Oz is over the rainbow, and Midian is where the monsters go.' There's a lovely sense in which there's a simple thesis being played out here. These are things you understand as a child out on the play yard.
I want to be able to still surprise myself, even shock myself, whether it be sexual content, whether it be about the theological content, whatever. I want to be able to knock myself sideways. Otherwise, what a waste of a life that would be.
Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.
I'm not the expert on the great gameplay. I come in for the character design, monsters, atmosphere. I'm not the technician.
I was always aware of the ticking clock of time, always. I was very aware that I had a lot to do, and I wanted to do those things in the best possible way that I could and probably the biggest way I possibly could.
'Underworld' was my first filmed book. I think there are about seven of my lines in it.
