I am not one of those actors who believes he has to live the part he is playing. I can turn it on and off.

At the end of the first Halloween, when I shot 6 bullets into Michael Myers, John Carpenter said, Let's get a shot of you looking out of the window and seeing no one lying there.

What can I tell you about things like Circus of Horrors except that I get killed by the bear?

Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach.

At this point in my career, it doesn't bother me much that I'm probably hopelessly typecast. I like to work, and horror films definitely keep me working.

All the real work is done in the rehearsal period.

The idea of dying and coming back is what makes the Halloween films work.

I think people have a tendency to read into more than there is.

I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines.

I was offered a choice of a flat salary up front or a percentage of the film's future earnings. I took the up front money. Nobody could have figured what Halloween would ultimately become.

I loved working with Jamie Lee Curtis, and I felt she was a wonderful actress even that early in her career.

If I told you about a land of love...would you swallow it as a remedy?

The beauty of the universe consists not only of unity in variety, but also of variety in unity.

No one should feel hurt by you, you should make everyone happy and leave.

Suffer not yet our eyes to hunger for your face.

Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.

Even now, nature is the only flame, on which the poetic spirit feeds; from it alone it draws all its power, to it alone it speaks even in the artificial, in the man engaged in culture.

A Polish man had his vasectomy done at Sears. Now when he makes love, the garage door goes up.

I look at my pictures, and I think, 'Well, how did I do that?

The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.

I am simply a book drunkard.