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No matter what time of year it's always funny when a person walks by me dressed in religious garb and I say Happy Halloween!
Sep 30, 2025
I don't see scary films. I certainly wouldn't go see my films.
For me, writing something in the spirit of Halloween is like Mother Teresa writing on charity and sacrifice. It's just second nature to me.
I heard one cry in the night, and I heard one laugh afterwards. If I cannot forget that, I shall not be able to sleep again.
October proved a riot a riot to the senses and climaxed those giddy last weeks before Halloween.
The safest genre is the horror film. But the most unsafe - the most dangerous - is comedy. Because even if your horror film isn't very good, you'll get a few screams and you're okay. With a comedy, if they don't laugh, you're dead.
There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people...religion, politics and the Great Pumpkin!
I love the spirit of Halloween and the energy that comes with it.
... we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
This is Halloween, everybody make a scene Trick or treat till the neighbors gonna die of fright It's our town, everybody scream In this town of Halloween.
Like at Halloween: I knew I'd arrived when I saw people dressing up on Halloween as my character.
I don't believe in using too much graphic violence, although I've done it. It's better to be suggestive and to allow the viewer to fill in the blanks in their minds.
Style is something that's extremely important, but it must grow naturally out of who and what you are and what the material calls for. It cannot be superimposed.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
My son wants to be Batman and he wants the Batman costume that comes in the mail. It has fake muscles in it, which is very disconcerting on a four-year-old.
When I was a kid my family was really poor and I remember one Halloween I wanted to dress up really scary and my parents came home with a duck costume. I wore that costume for years! I hated it.
If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.
Being born on Halloween, there's always a party. It's a convenient birthday because you don't really have to organize a party.
I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with cinema.
I love Halloween, trick or treating and decorating the house. And I love Thanksgiving, because of the football and the fall weather. And of course, I love Christmas - that's my favorite of all!
Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a child again just for to-night!
There is something haunting in the light of the moon.
I'll bet living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween.
As spirits roam the neighborhoods at night, Let loose upon the Earth till it be light.
Where there is no imagination there is no horror.
Nothing on Earth is so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
Charlie Brown is the one person I identify with. C.B. is such a loser. He wasn't even the star of his own Halloween special.
At Halloween, when fairy sprites Perform their mystic gambols, When ilka witch her neebour greets, On their nocturnal rambles; When elves at midnight-hour are seen, Near hollow caverns sportin, Then lads an' lasses aft convene, In hopes to ken their fortune, By freets that night.
A gypsy fire is on the hearth, Sign of the carnival of mirth; Through the dun fields and from the glade Flash merry folk in masquerade, For this is Hallowe'en!
Never take candy from strangers.
This Halloween, the most popular mask is the Arnold Schwarzenegger mask. And the best part? With a mouth full of candy you will sound just like him.
Halloween was confusing. All my life my parents said, "Never take candy from strangers." And then they dressed me up and said, "Go beg for it." I didn't know what to do. I'd knock on people's doors and go, "Trick or treat."
The worst thing about Halloween is, of course, candy corn. It's unbelievable to me. Candy corn is the only candy in the history of America that's never been advertised. And there's a reason. All of the candy corn that was ever made was made in 1911. And so, since nobody eats that stuff, every year there's a ton of it left over.
All the candy corn that was ever made was made in 1911.
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.
As a kid, there are some things you looked forward to. You looked forward to Charlie Brown during Halloween and you looked forward to Monday Night Football.
People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.
Look, there's no metaphysics on earth but chocolates.
There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear.
A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween.
Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.
There is a child in every one of us who is still a trick-or-treater looking for a brightly-lit front porch.
But I love Halloween, and I love that feeling: the cold air, the spooky dangers lurking around the corner.
Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble!
There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.
It’s said that All Hallows’ Eve is one of the nights when the veil between the worlds is thin - and whether you believe in such things or not, those roaming spirits probably believe in you, or at least acknowledge your existence, considering that it used to be their own. Even the air feels different on Halloween, autumn-crisp and bright.