I Had A Talent For Scoring Films;

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.

To Make Movies You Just Have To Want It Enough. You Have To Have The Passion For Telling Stories. You Have To Get By The Love-of-movies Aspect. You Can't Just Be A Movie Fan.

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.

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.

Horror Is Always The Same. It Changes With The Culture And Changes With Technology. The Stories Are Always The Same. There Are Just Two Basic Stories In Horror, Two Simple Ones -- Evil Is Outside And Evil Is In Here [points To His Heart].