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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 Life, But They're Real On The Screen. It's The Communal Aspect Of Movie-watching.

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.

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 Two Different Stories In Horror: Internal And External. In External Horror Films, The Evil Comes From The Outside, The Other Tribe, This Thing In The Darkness That We Don't Understand. Internal Is The Human Heart.

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.