106 Quotes by John Carpenter

Monsters in movies are us, always us, one way or the other. They’re us with hats on. The zombies in George Romero’s movies are us. They’re hungry. Monsters are us, the dangerous parts of us. The part that wants to destroy. The part of us with the reptile brain. The part of us that’s vicious and cruel. We express these in our stories as these monsters out there.

I met this six-year-old child, with this blank, pale, emotionless face, and the blackest eyes... the devil's eyes."~Dr. Sam Loomis/Halloween

When I was a kid, I loved 'The Curse of Frankenstein,' 'The Creeping Unknown,' 'X: The Unknown.' I love 'Forbidden Planet,' 'The Thing from Another World.' They were science fiction/horror movies, generally.

We didn't think they should get away with it.

Most of us come from the world of low-budget features. You learn to work quickly. But these were great -- they're very much like well-developed short stories.

If we're going to need to pay a match of 25 percent on the cost of Katrina at the same time we have to absorb these lost revenues, frankly I don't know what we're going to do.

I have a lot of people donate stuff to me, ... People just give it to me because they know I wouldn't sell it.

Our initial agreement in 2003 leveraged our respective strengths, combining Caterpillar's distribution and component expertise with Blount's strong product position. The alliance will only improve by adding the strength of the Caterpillar brand.

Our officer reached out and grabbed her arm just as she was about to go over the edge.