Patrick Lussier Quotes

The 'Hellraiser' situation was pretty darn wonderful and very unusual. Nor did I understand how radically unusual the thesis of 'Nightbreed' was.

'Hellraiser' was the first horror film I ever saw, so it will always be a favorite.

I think the first 'Hellraiser' is a work of genius.

My pictures are about getting as far away from reality as possible. Dreams should be part of our everyday life.

I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

And my first film was Carnal Knowledge, another amazing experience, largely because of Mike Nichols, who would tell me you can't do anything wrong because you're doing everything right.

I just kind of conjured them up out of my subconscious and put them in order of ascending peculiarity.

I felt like I'd culturally arrived when a character on the HBO show 'True Blood' was reading a hardback of 'Heartsick' at Sookie's kitchen table.

I think that David Lynch, he lives in a zone, and he expresses that zone to us with everything he does.

Radio allowed me to be a creator, and TV stole that creation from me by literalizing - and to some extent limiting - my vision.

I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka.

If you are a novelist of a certain type of temperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist, except he was a Realist.

I would try to write 'realistic' fiction, and someone would fly, or there would be a black hole full of demons or a girl who attracted frogs.

I am but an architectural composer.

I strive to make movies I would enjoy.

I'm a big fan of vampire movies generally and that sort of tradition of characters.

I think the reason vampire movies have been so popular over time is that they share so many parallels with human beings.

One of the most difficult things for any artist to do is create a world that looks both completely alien yet real and possible.

'Avatar' was incredible and totally groundbreaking, but it wasn't about utter realism. It had a great mythic fantasy to it, but the characters don't seem totally photo-real, as amazing as they are.

There was a big horror boom in the '80s, and I liked its originality and what you could get away with.

As opposed to putting too much confidence in myself, or in an image or a scene or a set of brushes, I really want to allow the oil paint to perform, to show me the things that it wants to do, beyond my imagination.

I think it's fun to play with worlds that you can add a lot of your own imagination to. With 'True Blood,' you're not limited by anything, there are just leaps and bounds of the imagination you can take with these characters.

Film sets are constantly amusing because you really are creating something that is so very surreal, and I kind of like that.

Actors get to go to these amazing worlds. In 'Terminator,' I was a cyborg with feelings; in 'Avatar,' I lived for 15 months on a fantastical planet, and in 'Clash of the Titans,' I get to fight a scorpion the size of a dump truck. It's a bizarre job, but you explore yourself.

Gothic in its purest sense is actually a very powerful, twisted genre, but the way it was being used by by journalists - 'goff' with a double f - always seemed to me to be about tacky, harum-scarum horror, and I find that anything but scary. That wasn't what we were about at all.