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.

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

I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do.

Am I your weakness?""Of course you are.

We aim for the higher calling of God.

Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.

Neither blame or praise yourself.

I'm not here for a long time. I'm here for a short time

So few of us really think. What we do is rearrange our prejudges.

I genuinely want to do my best every day, and I genuinely want to enjoy life every day.

Melania Trump's husband tweeted this: "Arianna Huffington is unattractive both inside and out. I fully understand why her former husband left her for a man. He made a good decision."

I don't think any word can explain a man's life.

I don't let nobody sign for my money. Me and my wife write our own checks. So, if there's some money missing, we know how it got missing.