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

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.

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

To make movies you just have to want it enough. You have to have the passion for telling stories. You have to get by the love-of-movies aspect. You can't just be a movie fan.

I saw spark in your eyes while you chose only flaws in me, that made the difference!

It is the tendency of deep feeling to subdue the manner rather than to render it too energetic.

Luke's eyes were on a government position in DC, while all Natalie wanted was help make the world a sweeter place.

The devil will use fear, pride, jealousy, time wasters, hurt, thoughts, disappointments to get us to turn our eyes away from Jesus. Don't give him a moment in your life.

A flu shot just compromises your immune system.

You never came home for lunch: you just stayed doing, playing, having fun, surfing, running round.

in the street of the sky night walks scattering poems

In what a forge and what a heat were shaped the anchors of thy hope! Fear not each sudden sound and shock; 'Tis of the wave and not the rock.

Science takes things apart to see how they work. Religion puts things together to see what they mean.

Those who sign on and depart the system of anxious scarcity become the historymakers in the neighborhood.