I had a talent for scoring films; I just developed it.

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

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.

I don't want to be a part of the demographics. I want to be an individual. I wear each of my films as a badge of pride. That's why I cherish all my bad reviews. If the critics start liking my movies, then I'm in deep trouble.

Movies are pieces of film stuck together in a certain rhythm, an absolute beat, like a musical composition. The rhythm you create affects the audience.

When you have no money, you need invention.

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.