I Had A Talent For Scoring Films;

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 Associated With Them. But The Truth Is, It's Not Like That. It's Very Different. It's Hard Work.

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 So Universal. Humor Doesn't Always Travel To Other Countries, But Horror Does.

To Make Michael Myers Frightening, I Had Him Walk Like A Man, Not A Monster.

Remakes, In General, Are A Result Of Necessity Being The Mother Of Invention. They Can't Open Movies Consistently And Break Through The Advertising Clutter That's Out There.

One Of My Heroes Is A Composer Named James Bernard, And Oh My God... I Can Still Listen To His Music Today And Be Stirred And Moved By It. But I Think That You Fall In Love With... Well, Again, When You're Young, It Really Is More Powerful. Much More Terrifying.