I made a decision back in 1978 that, in a trade off for money when I directed Halloween, I would have my name above the title in order to basically brand these movies my own.

First of all, I was a wrestling fan when I was young. Even when I figured out what wrestling was, I was still a fan.

I can play just about any keyboard but I can't read or write a note.

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.

We've got the prettiest girls in the world here in Los Angeles and there's a great music scene. And I learned what I learned about cinema here in Los Angeles so it's always been really important to me as a city to live in and I love making movies about it.

What a director does... essentially, it's storytelling, but a director also controls the feeling and the sounds and the texture. It's an act of creation, like a symphony or a painting or a story. But with different tools.

Halloween put me on the map, and I'm very sad to hear of his death.