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

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

More people die from the hunger of love than from the lack of food.

It is only the strong Christian family unit that can survive the coming world holocaust.

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.

I tried ice-skating and wasn't very good at it.

Sometimes the best songs almost write themselves

I'm constantly feeding my metabolism. But at the same time if I want to go one night and have a nice dinner then I won't sweat it the next day.

I'm neither giving up nor giving in.

For as long as I can remember, I've always had a wild imagination and always enjoyed reading and writing.

I have improved the way in which I paint. The colours are cleaner and there is more energy in the brush work.

It would be unthinkable in Canadian public life today for the public inauguration of our supreme political figures to be accompanied by prayer.