You have to fight really hard for a private life, and sometimes you don't have one. It just gets to you after a while. It's tough.

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.

I am neither a philosopher nor a thinker, but simply follower of my own thoughts.

Then Percy let go of his tiny ledge, and together, holding hands, he and Annabeth fell into the endless darkness.

As a songwriter, I'm not necessarily writing about myself or my life.

True prayer is an approach of the soul by the Spirit of God to the throne of God.

The problem of life is not to make life easier, but to make men stronger.

You can take the kundalini from the crown center and bring it down. You can bring it up or you can stabilize them both. When you stop breathing in meditation, the kundalini is stabilized.

If you can maintain that integrity in whatever you do, you can't go wrong.

A man who finishes a book is always alone when he finishes it.

If you're a drug addict, then you've always got drugs, so you're a criminal. So you're gonna get into problems.

The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.