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 hardly physically right for the hero parts, now am I?

The process of creation goes on all the time. When I get through, I feel I know what the character will do in every situation. But the building up of the part is not mechanical or deliberate. It grows out of the text.

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

Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach.

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.

All the real work is done in the rehearsal period.