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"John Carpenter created the idea of Halloween, so his vision remains the most focused and intelligently directed of the series. The directors that have followed have kept the original intent of the concept."
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"Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness."

"But once you become successful, everyone has an idea of what you should do."

"We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still."

"We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order."

"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."
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"I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines."

"The play is on top of me all the time, and I am constantly thinking about it. Even when I leave the theatre, I'll mumble the lines to myself or think about the way the character walks or holds himself."

"John and I had a few meetings about what direction the sequel should take. I made some real insane suggestions. True to what you'd expect, he ignored them all and just picked up Halloween II where the original left off."

"Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach."

"I loved working with Jamie Lee Curtis, and I felt she was a wonderful actress even that early in her career."

"I don't really know how many films I've done, and I don't look at this as a race that I necessarily want to win. Nor is it a race that I want to stop running."

"At the end of the first Halloween, when I shot 6 bullets into Michael Myers, John Carpenter said, Let's get a shot of you looking out of the window and seeing no one lying there."
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