I Had A Talent For Scoring Films;

Anybody Can Make A Movie, If You Have The Will. The Digital Revolution Has Made It Very Inexpensive To Make A Film. Anybody Who Wants To Can Do It.

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.

In Halloween, I Viewed The Characters As Simply Normal Teenagers. Laurie, Jamie Lee's Character, Was Shy And Somewhat Repressed. And Michael Myers, The Killer, Is Definitely Repressed. They Have Certain Similarities.

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 Richest. I Don't Need To Make A Whole Lot Of Great Films. I Can Do My Job And I Can Do It Pretty Well. This Is The Realization I've Come To, Later In Life. It's Called Growing Up.

What A Director Does... Essentially, It's Storytelling, But A Director Also Controls The Feeling And The Sounds And The Texture. It's An Act Of Creation, Like A Symphony Or A Painting Or A Story. But With Different Tools.