I'm hardly physically right for the hero parts, now am I?

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 you fall, dare to rise up again.

As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding.

There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.

I don't care about the politics, I don't care about the practicality, I don't care about any of it.

I draw from the crowd a lot.

It is much more difficult to know what is fair than what is unfair

If you don't have a basis on which to make the choice, then you don't have a style at all. You have a series of accidents.

Through the blackest night, morning gently tiptoes, feeling its way to dawn.

Whether people like it or not, my marketing thought is if you keep something in front of people for too long, they get used to it.

The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids decision not to drink alcohol.