106 Quotes by John Carpenter

A lot of it [success] is luck. That's a huge part of it that no one wants to talk about. You just got to be in the right place at the right time.

Horror is a reaction; it's not a genre. Somebody's life would have to be in danger for it [story] to be a horror story.

Horror found me. I got into the movie business to make westerns.

I stopped directing in 2001 for four or five years, until I did the TV series 'Masters Of Horror.' I had been working steadily as a director since 1970. That's a long time. I was burned out.

I never got in this business, in cinema, to make horror movies. They arrived on my doorstep and I got typecast. Which was fine, I enjoy it, but I got into this business to make westerns. And the kind of westerns I used to see, they died. So that didn't work out.

When you have no money, you need invention.

I love making movies.

I had a talent for scoring films. I just developed it.

I enjoyed 'The Avengers.' I couldn't do that kind of movie though. Superheroes aren't my deal.