I believe you can frighten people without showing their heads caved-in.

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.

I forced my eyes open and saw the image that’s haunted me every day for the past years of my life. And every day, in my nightmares.

You don't have to have a million followers to make an impact on one.

Stories are our gifts to a world that doesn't see us.

Less gossiping, more encouraging.Less complaining, more thanksgiving.Less criticizing, more complimenting.Less hurting, more helping.Less hating, more caring.

A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?

There is nothing on earth that could ever make me want to relive certain years of my life when I was young.

I do really well under pressure.

In most novels, the landscape, or the place, in which the story takes part is simply a backdrop to the human action.

Where the lion's skin will not reach, you must patch it out with the fox's.

Every day ask yourself, "What would I do today if I were a better person?