Best Quotes by John Carpenter (Top 6)

  1. 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.
  2. To make Michael Myers frightening, I had him walk like a man, not a monster.
  3. 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.
  4. Evil hiding among us is an ancient theme.
  5. In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a bum.
  6. 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.