It’s a cliche, but it’s true that all the fun lies in baddies, grotesques and comic roles. Mark Gatiss Read Quote
They are called ‘Emos’ now, and before that they were ‘Goths.’ They didn’t have a name for it when I was one, but I was that black-wearing teenager and yes, I wore a little eyeliner. Mark Gatiss Read Quote
The question I ask myself is: have I really just become a squeamish middle-aged man, or has something happened to the horror genre that shows a growing appetite for watching torture, or at least a desire to explore it on film? And if so, why would that be? I can’t pretend I know. I just know I don’t like it. Mark Gatiss Read Quote
I think one of the few faults in Dickens is that mostly his lead characters are blanks – who is David Copperfield, who is Oliver Twist? And yet he takes such joy in populating the rest of his novels with these fantastic, grotesque people like Pecksmith and so on. Mark Gatiss Read Quote
Even though it’s meant to be the season of jollity and goodwill, there’s something delicious about the anticipation of a Christmassy ghost thrill. Mark Gatiss Read Quote
Europe is so much the home of Horror, with its myths of vampires, werewolves, witchcraft and the undead, yet it’s like those myths were exported to Hollywood, leaving Europe the room to develop a new tradition as a way of processing its traumas, particularly the two world wars. Mark Gatiss Read Quote
I love the Shakespeare history plays; I love the struggle for the crown as a plot. Mark Gatiss Read Quote
Even when I was a child, I always wanted to be older. I realised just in time that it’s a mistake and to enjoy my youth while I had it. Mark Gatiss Read Quote
