The strongest human emotion is fear. It's the essence of any good thriller that, for a little while, you believe in the boogeyman.

I never got in this business, in cinema, to make horror movies. They arrived on my doorstep and I got typecast. Which was fine, I enjoy it, but I got into this business to make westerns. And the kind of westerns I used to see, they died. So that didn't work out.

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.

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

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

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.

There are a lot of movies that I don't care about, especially not remakes.