NICK CASTLE

I know it will be the thing that'll be my epitaph: They won't say anything about my movies, I'll be this guy in a rubber mask.

A producer friend of mine from film school had read some of my early screenplays - some experiments I had done to see how fast I could write something.

The idea of acting on the first 'Halloween', it didn't really apply to my eventual work, working with actors.

I made that decision around the time of 'Halloween,' whether I wanted to continue trying to be a singer and rock and roll player or get into movies.

So when 'Skatetown' came up at Columbia and Ray Stark's studio, the idea was to do it quick. They wanted it out in the fall, and they gave me the treatment on July 4th weekend! I wrote it in four days, and, you know, it kind of looks like it.

Actually, the most difficult time I had was not in the mask. The first time you see 'Michael Myers', he doesn't have his mask yet, and he's jumping onto the back of a car. from the insane asylum.

Escape' really helped launch my career as a writer/director, so from there I just kind of took off on my own.

A producer friend of mine from film school had read some of my early screenplays - some experiments I had done to see how fast I could write something.

So when 'Skatetown' came up at Columbia and Ray Stark's studio, the idea was to do it quick. They wanted it out in the fall, and they gave me the treatment on July 4th weekend! I wrote it in four days, and, you know, it kind of looks like it.

I know it will be the thing that'll be my epitaph: They won't say anything about my movies, I'll be this guy in a rubber mask.

Actually, the most difficult time I had was not in the mask. The first time you see 'Michael Myers', he doesn't have his mask yet, and he's jumping onto the back of a car. from the insane asylum.

I made that decision around the time of 'Halloween,' whether I wanted to continue trying to be a singer and rock and roll player or get into movies.

The idea of acting on the first 'Halloween', it didn't really apply to my eventual work, working with actors.

Escape' really helped launch my career as a writer/director, so from there I just kind of took off on my own.