When you have no money, you need invention..

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

Evil hiding among us is an ancient theme..

Horror found me. I got into the movie business to make westerns..

Directing is all about storytelling. It's not about equipment, or anything else..

Fears are all psychological. Being afraid of death, loss of a loved one and disfigurement are all powered by your mind, and that's very powerful stuf….

Horror has been a genre since the beginning of cinema, all the way back to the days of silent films. I don't think it will ever go away because it's ….

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

Horror stories have always worked on film. It's where they work. That's where vampires and ghosts and UFOs are real. They're not particularly real in….

To make Michael Myers frightening, I had him walk like a man, not a monster..

What scares me is what scares you. We’re all afraid of the same things. That’s why horror is such a powerful genre. All you have to do is ask yoursel….

A lot of it [success] is luck. That's a huge part of it that no one wants to talk about. You just got to be in the right place at the right time..

When somebody who makes movies for a living - either as an actor, writer, producer or director - lives to be a certain age, you have to admire them. ….

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..

I'm pretty happy with who I am. I like myself and what I'm doing. I don't need to be the world's greatest director or the most famous -- or the riche….

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 afra….

Film buffs who don't live in Hollywood have a fantasy about what it's like to be a director. Movies and the people who make movies have such glamour ….

There are two different stories in horror: internal and external. In external horror films, the evil comes from the outside, the other tribe, this th….

Horror is always the same. It changes with the culture and changes with technology. The stories are always the same. There are just two basic stories….

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..

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