I Never Got In This Business, In

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.

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.

Child Pornography Is Taboo. There Are Really No Such Things As Snuff Films. That's A Legend. But Movies Are Like Pieces Of Dreams, And We Don't Need To Go Into Those Dreams. Those Dreams Are Beyond. Child Pornography - It's Horrible. Human Suffering Is A Horrible Thing In Real Life.

When Somebody Who Makes Movies For A Living - Either As An Actor, Writer, Producer Or Director - Lives To Be A Certain Age, You Have To Admire Them. It Is An Act Of Courage To Make A Film - A Courage For Which You Are Not Prepared In The Rest Of Life. It Is Very Hard And Very Destructive. But We Do It Because We Love It.

I Have Two Different Categories Of Favorite Films. One Is The Emotional Favorites, Which Means These Are Generally Films That I Saw When I Was A Kid; Anything You See In Your Formative Years Is More Powerful, Because It Really Stays With You Forever. The Second Category Is Films That I Saw While I Was Learning The Craft Of Motion Pictures.