Clive Barker Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose is a kind of holiday house. But it's really only so I can go on drawing when I get there. I'm never far away from the feeling that I want to be getting on with something.
-
What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.
-
I was just so excited to have a child! I held him up like he was Simba in 'The Lion King.' I wanted to sing 'The Circle of Life.'
-
I was unbelievably lucky.
-
I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
-
My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
-
It was very unusual, because normally the producer requests the test to determine whether they want to hire someone or not. Olivia was concerned about playing a seventeen year old.
-
I started making movies in the early '90s, a few years after I discovered 'the cinema' during a three month stay in Paris during which I watched 100s of films.
-
Fiction seeks to represent human experience as it is lived and as it reverberates in our hopes, fears, dreams, and memories. So much of our lives are internal. The art of fiction has claimed - more than anything else - this internal ground as its own.
-
Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
-
In this case, the particle formed has correspondingly less energy, whereas the product nucleus passes into the ground state with emission of the quantity of energy saved as gamma radiation.
-
With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
-
I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books.
-
What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
-
I love being photographed, I love the ramp.
-
Meeting Oprah Winfrey, I cried like a baby. Meeting Steven Spielberg, I cried like a baby. Meeting Denzel Washington, I gushed like a crazy woman. If I don't get excited or star struck by someone I've been dying to meet, it's time to retire.
-
You should not do an autobiography if you want to tell the truth. There are a lot of things I know about people. If I can't say something good about a person, I don't want to say anything. And since I don't want to say anything bad, I won't write a book.
-
These days we're all hyper-aware of the canonical way in which stories are supposed to play out - people are taught all about three-act scripting and where to put the reversal and all of that - and I think we can do more interesting narratives.
-
There's always something at least a little smug about self-reference - magazine articles about idealistic journalists, TV shows about TV actors, ironic films within ironic-er films: all this meta-media populated by thinly disguised characters making oblique inside jokes.
-
A lot of the shows that really become hit shows are often demonstrated, like Mystery Science Theater.
-
In my experience, each project is what it is, and nothing is necessarily a turning point.
-
I work twice as hard as everybody else.
-
I've held a brain in my hands, which is an extraordinary experience.
