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"Evil hiding among us is an ancient theme."

John Carpenter, American Director

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"Evil hiding among us is an ancient theme."

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"The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible."

Thomas Hardy, English Novelist

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"When the Devil goeth about like a roaring lion, he goeth about in a shape by which few but savages and hunters are attracted. But, when he is trimmed, smoothed, and varnished, according to the mode: when he is aweary of vice, and aweary of virtue, used up as to brimstone, and used up as to bliss; then, whether he take to the serving out of red tape, or to the kindling of red fire, he is the very Devil."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

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"I think everything should have an end, an end of the brutal stuff happening home. ENd for the song, end of the film, end of the evil... This how it must go and it will go, if you think that evil has gone it's still here. If you believe in god, that's means that you believe this evil."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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"Evil is whatever distracts."

Franz Kafka, Austrian Novelist

"How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!"

Elizabeth Gaskell, British Novelist

"The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man."

Franz Kafka, Austrian Novelist

"There are heroes in evil as well as in good."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

"Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

"Afternoon classes - that evil invention!"

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"Evil hiding among us is an ancient theme."

"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."

"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."

Character, Teenagers

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

Identity, England, Germany, Horror

"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."

Business, Time, Horror, Tongue

"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."

Money, Career, Film, Holidays

"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."

Money, Movies, Decision, Name

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

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