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

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.

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.

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

Voicing out your concerns in a calmly way is a great thing to do and it helps and saves lives of those who can't speak up.

The past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present was itself founded on some past that went before it.

Anything worth doing is going to be difficult.

We are familiar with terrorism. But indiscriminate, cross-border, religiously motivated terrorism is new.

Come Dance with Me , come dance.

I read the Romans had bread and circuses. We had home relief and boxing.

No matter how much you rehearse on that stage, once you add 30,000 screaming people with flashing cameras into the equation, it's pretty intense.

A creation needs not only subjectivity, but also objectivity.

You usually never know what you're going to do when you're making a movie.