In Halloween, I Viewed The Characters As

I Never Got In This Business, In Cinema, To Make Horror Movies. They Arrived On My Doorstep And I Got Typecast. Which Was Fine, I Enjoy It, But I Got Into This Business To Make Westerns. And The Kind Of Westerns I Used To See, They Died. So That Didn't Work Out.

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.

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 Always Involved With Casting My Movies. I Have Final Word On It.

From Early On, When Synthesizers Were First Introduced Into Music, I Liked The Idea That You Could Get A Big Sound With Them - Electronic, But Like An Orchestra. And I Could Play It All Myself. That Was Exciting.