We all question our sanity. Everyone has had an experience of loss of control of something.

It [horror genre] never dies. It just keeps getting re­invented and it always will. Horror is a universal language; we're all afraid. We're born afraid, we're all afraid of things: death, disfigurement, loss of a loved one. Everything that I'm afraid of, you're afraid of and vice versa. So everybody feels fear and suspense.

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.

Horror is a reaction; it's not a genre. Somebody's life would have to be in danger for it [story] to be a horror story.

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

In Halloween, I viewed the characters as simply normal teenagers. Laurie, Jamie Lee's character, was shy and somewhat repressed. And Michael Myers, the killer, is definitely repressed. They have certain similarities.

I don't watch my films. I've seen 'em enough after cutting them and putting the music on. I don't ever want to see them again.