Director Quotes

I was at college doing performing arts, and just spending all my time mucking about, and the lecturers thought I would be pretty good at stand-up, so I gave it a whirl.

I think over there in Montreal they're a bit hardcore with the old homos. They're not that keen on them.

I still get excited about meeting celebrities, because I don't think I'm a celebrity myself.

I like old people falling over, that's what makes me laugh.

I haven't really got much get up and go. I can't believe I'm on the telly. I'm so lazy.

I hate Shakespeare. I think Shakespeare's rubbish.

I didn't really want to be a comedian.

I'm just generally hugely frustrated, I'm a very, very frustrated man. I'm just a ball of pent-up frustration.

A lot of comedians, when they have a bad gig, will blame everything but themselves. They'll blame the crowd, or the room was wrong, it had a weird vibe, or the promoter promoted a weird atmosphere.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Evil hiding among us is an ancient theme.

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

When I last went to Italy, over two years ago, I had a lot more trouble understanding the language than I used to when I lived there for a year. I used to speak very little but I could understand very well.

Well, you know, I'm much older than I look.

Well, I always run the risk of falling on my face, which has in fact happened.

The problem is that to be a producer, one must be a gambler, and the greatest French producers were gamblers.

My father's sister never married in order to raise me.

It's nice to know that people appreciate and respect you.

If you do two versions of a film, they should be identical. With the same frames and settings.

I was very nervous at the beginning of Hotel du Nord.

I think you never forget your childhood, whether it was happy or unhappy.

I also won one from the emperor of Japan, with a prize for the arts. That's important.

For people to understand me when I travel, I speak with my hands.

But I still always felt the absence of a mother.

A lot of people are upset that I'm not working. They say it's a disgrace.