John Carpenter Quotes (17 Quotes)


    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.

    There's not a lot of breadth, so I make sure they have the training, that's how you maintain the edge.

    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.

    What scares me is what scares you. We're all afraid of the same things. That's why horror is such a powerful genre. All you have to do is ask yourself what frightens you and you'll know what frightens me.

    I have news for him. They turned me into a movie director.


    One could make money and get a career going with a low-budget horror film about killers attacking on holidays. It is always flattering to have somebody copy you.

    Halloween' put me on the map, and I'm very sad to hear of his death.

    In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a bum.

    Our initial agreement in 2003 leveraged our respective strengths, combining Caterpillar's distribution and component expertise with Blount's strong product position. The alliance will only improve by adding the strength of the Caterpillar brand.

    A lot of things that come out of the university are enabling-types of technologies or platforms that can be licensed.

    We have all been beaten up in our careers, because horror is viewed as a low-rent genre, just a notch or two above pornography. And while it's true that we traffic in dark areas of violence and horror in our profession, because we get everything out on the screen and don't carry it around with us, we really are mostly nice guys.


    To make Michael Myers frightening, I had him walk like a man, not a monster.

    It's a very good time for horror. This business certainly has changed, but there's still room for serious horror films. Look at 28 Days Later, that's not a tongue-in-cheek picture.

    There was no real censorship involved, which is a tantalizing draw,

    I have a lot of people donate stuff to me, ... People just give it to me because they know I wouldn't sell it.

    If we're going to need to pay a match of 25 percent on the cost of Katrina at the same time we have to absorb these lost revenues, frankly I don't know what we're going to do.


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