I love the idea of stories being about great beginnings and terrible endings.
Hell is reimagined by every generation. We have to reinvent the worst so that we can reinvent the best.
I remember when I watched 'Hellraiser' 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.
If there was a horror movie showing somewhere in Liverpool between 1967 and 1975, I saw it.
Pinhead needed to say goodbye. He had a farewell speech to make. It was truly as simple as that.
I used to think that you'd open the door, and there was Narnia. Increasingly, I think it's all around us.
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.
Books should make somebody look at how they feel, be honest with themselves.
The thought of making a movie in which the monsters were the good guys was just financial suicide.
