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I've always maintained my name will not define my films, my films will define my name. But I wish I was called Steve, or something else.

I'd never really considered film. If I'd thought about film more growing up, I probably would have changed my name. I had no concept of my name in lights.

People sometimes ask who I would cast in my books and I never have any idea. I don't think I could ever write a book thinking of it as a movie the whole time. This would be like building a house and filling it with furniture just so you could have blueprints.

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.

I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in.

I would never want my name on something that I did not write most of. Part of television is you get rewritten.

I wanted to take on my full name, which was sort of a crazy thing to do considering that we're in Hollywood.

I'm right on the edge of getting another movie. It's between me and a famous person. The studio said they're thinking about going with somebody with a name. I said, 'That's great! Because I have one!'

I was a medium-level juvenile delinquent from Newark who always dreamed about doing a movie.