Halloween put me on the map, and I'm very sad to hear of his death.

It's a very good time for horror. This business certainly has changed, but there's still room for serious horror films. Look at 28 Days Later, that's not a tongue-in-cheek picture.

The strongest human emotion is fear. It's the essence of any good thriller that, for a little while, you believe in the boogeyman.

Directing is all about storytelling. It's not about equipment, or anything else.

Evil hiding among us is an ancient theme.

To make Michael Myers frightening, I had him walk like a man, not a monster.

Movies are pieces of film stuck together in a certain rhythm, an absolute beat, like a musical composition. The rhythm you create affects the audience.

We all question our sanity. Everyone has had an experience of loss of control of something.

A lot of it [success] is luck. That's a huge part of it that no one wants to talk about. You just got to be in the right place at the right time.

Horror found me. I got into the movie business to make westerns.

I can play just about any keyboard but I can't read or write a note.

I am the wood frame, the bundle of ox hair, and the creative spark... my value unhangable.

In parenting, as in judging, the days are long, but the years are short.

This America has been the country of greed rather than the country of need.

We have chased away the clouds, the sky is all 'rose.'

People with Tourettes.....What makes them tick?

Draw places you have seen from memory. I used to paint things I had glimpsed through windows while riding in the elevated train.

What is there in being able to say that one has dominated the stream in an attitude of self-defense; in proving that one has had the experience of carrying a stick?

An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.

I don't think that players learn how to play any other aspect of the game in high school or college.

I never understood the whole point of opposing or hating someone else's happiness.