"[To Reverend Scott after Linda has fallen off a catwalk to her death]: You! Preacher! You lyin', murderin' son of a bitch! You almost suckered me in! I started to believe in your promises, that we had a chance! What chance? You took from me the only thing I ever loved in the whole world, my Linda. YOU KILLED HER!! [Rogo breaks down]: You killed her."

"[Sees a blast of steam blocking the last way out, yells in frustration] What more do You want of us?! We've come all this way, no thanks to You! We did it on our own, with no help from You! We did ask You to fight for us, but dammit, DON'T FIGHT AGAINST US! LEAVE US ALONE! How many more sacrifices?! HOW MUCH MORE BLOOD?! [jumps to the steam valve, the steam on the valve's wheel searing his hands, but he holds on] How many more lives?! [turns the wheel of the valve, despite the pain] Belle wasn't enough, Acres wasn't, now this girl?! You want another life, then TAKE ME! [the valve finally closes, clearing the final obstacle.] You can make it. Keep going, Rogo! Get them through! [lets go of the wheel and falls into the flaming water to his death]"

"[Angry at the Doctor for leading his group of 44 the wrong way]: You're going the wrong way, DAMMIT! The BOW'S UNDERWATER!"

"[Appealing to the survivors in the ballroom]: I wanna appeal to you the last time. I know this much; the sea's gonna keep pouring in, we're gonna keep settling deeper and deeper, we may even go under before we get up to the bottom to cut our way out! But it's something to try, it's a chance, we might make it. You stay here, you'll certainly die!"

"At midnight on New Year's Eve, the S.S. Poseidon, en route from New York to Athens, met with disaster and was lost. There were only a handful of survivors. This is their story....."

"Nancy Loomis - Annie Brackett"

"Sandy Johnson - Judith Myers"

"Nick Castle - The Shape"

"Tony Moran - Michael Myers (age 21)"

"Nancy Stephens - Marion Chambers"

"John Michael Graham - Bob Simms"

"Brian Andrews - Tommy Doyle"

"Kyle Richards - Lindsey Wallace"

"Charles Cyphers - Sheriff Leigh Brackett"

"P. J. Soles - Lynda van der Klok"

"Jamie Lee Curtis - Laurie Strode"

"Donald Pleasence - Dr. Sam Loomis"

"The Trick Is To Stay Alive!"

"Happy Halloween!"

"Let's celebrate the horror"

"Trick or treat... or die"

"Everyone is entitled to one good scare"

"HE came home for HALLOWEEN."

"The Night HE Came Home!"

"I didn’t think there was any more story, and I didn’t want to do it again. All of my ideas were for the first Halloween – there shouldn’t have been any more! I’m flattered by the fact that people want to remake them, but they remake everything these days, so it doesn’t make me that special. But Michael Myers was an absence of character. And yet all the sequels are trying to explain that. That’s silliness – it just misses the whole point of the first movie, to me. He’s part person, part supernatural force. The sequels rooted around in motivation. I thought that was a mistake. However, I couldn’t stop them from making sequels. So my agents said, ‘Why don’t you become an executive producer and you can share the revenue?’ But I had to write the second movie, and every night I sat there and wrote with a six pack of beer trying to get through this thing. And I didn’t do a very good job, but that was it. I couldn’t do any more."

"The mask that Michael Myers wore was written as “the pale features of a human face” – that’s what the script said. However, we had no money to manufacture such a thing, so what did you do? There were two options – one was a clown mask, which was a better mask, but the Captain Kirk mask was altered, spray painted, eye holes cut, with the hair. I don’t know if he knows the story."

"The opening shot was inspired by Touch of Evil. Orson Welles did a couple of one-take sequences, but the most astonishing is not the opening sequence which everybody remembers. In a motel room, in the middle of the movie, a man is broken by Orson Welles’ character. It’s almost a reel-long one-shot. It’s astonishing. I was inspired by the idea of that. So in the opening scene, we were coming up on the outside of the house, around and up the back steps, and as we passed through a room going into another room the crew would re-light it behind us. We were just flying on the edge, but that was the spectacle, the money shot. Plus we had a naked girl upstairs! You couldn’t ask for more than that. There are a couple of cuts in that first shot. The mask allowed us to do a cut, and there were botched takes — we didn’t make it up the stairs, there was a camera shadow, something would happen. But it was fun."

"The Killer's Weapon - A 40 Ton Truck"

"Carey Loftin - The Truck Driver"

"Dick Whittington - Radio Interviewer (voice)"

"Amy Douglass - Old Woman in Car"

"Alexander Lockwood - Old Man in Car"

"Shirley O'Hara - Waitress"

"Charles Seel - Old Man"

"Well, you never know...you just never know. You just go along figuring some things don't change ever, like being able to drive on a public highway without someone trying to murder you. And then one stupid thing happens. Twenty, twenty-five minutes out of your whole life, and all the ropes that kept you hanging in there get cut loose, and it's like, there you are, right back in the jungle again. All right boy, it was a nightmare, but it's over now. [pauses] It's all over."

"Tim Herbert - Gas Station Attendant"

"Fear is the driving force."

"[to himself, in Chuck's Cafe] I don't know, all I did was pass this stupid rig a couple of times, and he goes flying off the deep end. He has to be crazy. Okay, so he's crazy. What can I do about it? Find him a psychiatrist? Oh, boy. Now wait a minute. Now wait just a minute. All right, now, think. Okay, he's in here. Well, that doesn't mean he intends to continue his attack. It is lunchtime, and Chuck's Cafe may be the only place to eat for miles around. Yeah. He probably eats here all the time. He was just moving too fast before, and he had to slow down, turn around, that's all. That's all. [pause] Why didn't I leave right away when I saw his truck outside? Then I'd know what he intends to do. What if he followed me out, though? Started after me again? I'd be right back where I started; even if I got a lead, he'd overtake me soon enough. He's got some, some, some souped up diesel; my car's just not that powerful, I just can't break eighty and ninety miles an hour. As soon as I stop concentrating, I'd go back to sixty or seventy like I always do; it's a habit, I can't help it, he's just... [pauses] take it easy...just, take it easy."

"Lucille Benson - Lady at Snakerama"

"Gene Dynarski - Man in Cafe"

"Lou Frizzell - Bus Driver"

"Eddie Firestone - Cafe Owner"