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

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.

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 assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage

Solitude helps you to convert your time into clarity of purpose.

Forests were the first temples of God and in forests men grasped their first idea of architecture.

In every sphere of social interaction, that hermeneutic leap—that ability to put yourself in the mind frame of the other—is a virtue and a blessing.

Lancelot and Guinevere – they looked like two flowers, bright enough to turn to each other for sunlight.

Plot and character are virtually the same thing.

When you think the night has seen your mind, That inside your twisted and unkind, Let me stand to show that you are blind. Please put down you hands cause I see you. I'll be you mirror.

Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state.

I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me.