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

- John Carpenter

When you have no money, you need invention.

- John Carpenter

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

- John Carpenter

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…

- John Carpenter

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

- John Carpenter

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 …

- John Carpenter

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…

- John Carpenter

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…

- John Carpenter

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

- John Carpenter