Quotes

All I've ever wanted to do is darken the day and brighten the night.

I don't take accusations of selling out lightly.

Some people think that horror films are some sort of second class filmmaking, and the only way to bypass that thinking is being proud of the fact that we do it.

I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain.

Most 'Horror' movies nowadays aren't horror movies. They don't strike me as being horrific. That's why I am very careful when using the word 'Horror' to describe something

Pinhead, who doesn't do a decent, nice thing through eight movies still manages to receive fan mail from women who would like to bear his children

I remember when I watched Hellraiser (1987) with my mother. She cried when she saw my name in the opening credits and I had to tell her that that was the happiest she was going to be for the next two hours.

Neil Gaiman is a star. He constructs stories like some demented cook might make a wedding cake, building layer upon layer, including all kinds of sweet and sour in the mix.

'Underworld' was my first filmed book. I think there are about seven of my lines in it.

Horror fiction shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.

I used to think that you'd open the door and there was Narnia. Increasingly, I think it's all around us.

People who've been good at this stuff are often Brits, and I see myself as continuing that tradition.

Something I'm often asked at conventions is "What do you take to see this stuff?" and I don't! I just use my natural abilities.

You cut up a thing that's alive and beautiful to find out how it's alive and why it's beautiful, and before you know it, it's neither of those things, and you're standing there with blood on your face and tears in your sight and only the terrible ache of guilt to show for it.

[Sacrament] Living and dying we feed the fire.

Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love.

[Imajica] He cast his eyes around, looking for something sweet to spend his last gaze on.

Let the mad find wisdom in their madness for the sane, and let the sane be grateful.

[The Damnation Game] "I don't know, I'm just the monkey-boy, right?"

[Pig Blood Blues, Lacey's letter] I didn't run away. They fed me to the Pig.

[Imajica] "That's great," said the furry child. "I'm going to tell my brothers that today I met a white man on his way to see the Merrow Ti Ti!" In this way, thought Gentle, Legends are born.

[Galilee] One is the number that sets out to do Pure Evil or Greatest Good.

Hell is reimagined by every generation. We have to reinvent the worst so that we can reinvent the best.