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"I am not the river I am the net."

"The sooner you answer the question, "who am I" the more effective and successful life you will have."

"Fall in love with your uniqueness because that's what makes your presence on earth a very special one."

"How can you stand apart from the herd? How can you start to be noticed so people will remember you? How can you be heard above the noise? "What is your personal branding that makes you special, unique, individual, and memorable?"

"You are a special and unique person, who has never lived before and who will never live in the future."

"Before that no one thought of us as colored-foreign maybe, exotic and dark, but not colored."

"I don't like to do what people expect. Why should I live up to their expectations instead of my own?"
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"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."
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