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.

I think people have a tendency to read into more than there is.

I loved working with Jamie Lee Curtis, and I felt she was a wonderful actress even that early in her career.

I don't really know how many films I've done, and I don't look at this as a race that I necessarily want to win. Nor is it a race that I want to stop running.

I do think the story in Halloween 5 is a bit stupid, and there's a lot more blood. They're obviously going to take the Halloween series in a different direction.

I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines.

I am not one of those actors who believes he has to live the part he is playing. I can turn it on and off.

At the end of the first Halloween, when I shot 6 bullets into Michael Myers, John Carpenter said, Let's get a shot of you looking out of the window and seeing no one lying there.

At this point in my career, it doesn't bother me much that I'm probably hopelessly typecast. I like to work, and horror films definitely keep me working.

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

I believe you can frighten people without showing their heads caved-in.

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

All the real work is done in the rehearsal period.

I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do.