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.

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.

Adversities are opportunities for a daring life.

Kindness to self will put you in the perfect attitude and position to be kind to others.

A lot of people feel very good about Mitt Romney and I think he's going to do a great job.

You structure your system to fit him if he's going to be your guy.

I don't think of myself as a very famous person, but the modicum of celebrity that I've had has not been a positive experience for me at all.

A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.

An economy oriented toward production for market exchange provides the optimal conditions for long-lasting and ever-expanding productive capacity based on modern technology.

"I do not want to get material life, do not want the sense-life, but something higher." That is renunciation. Then, by the power of meditation, undo the mischief that has been done.

I've never really been settled. I don't think I've ever known what it was like to be a person that was used to sitting still. I think it's given me the ability to detach from any situation.

What the whole community comes to believe in grasps the individual as in a vise.