I don't watch my films. I've seen 'em enough after cutting them and putting the music on. I don't ever want to see them again.

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.

Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses.

We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring.

We would be cowards if we had courage enough.

I just like short hair on women I think it's cool.

I just try to be honest and true to the character and play the part.

To be nice to people and make them happy - that's my philosophy in life.

Innovating economies expand and develop. Economies that do not add new kinds of goods and services, but continue only to repeat old work, do not expand much nor do they, by definition, develop.

I loved playing Chandler. I grew up playing that part.

Be cheerful . Strive to be happy.

God may be the captain pilot of the universe, but it appears that the Devil is his co-pilot!