I don't believe her quote for a second!
I did "Halloween 4" and Halloween 5 (1989) back to back, and I decided that horror movies were all I wanted to do for the rest of my life. It was going to be my thing.
After H4 and H5, she didn't do another horror film for ten years (a small support part in Urban Legend with like two scenes) and didn't do another after that until almost a decade later! Who is she trying to fool? If she was planning all along to be a horror actresses, why did she do every genre under the sun EXCEPT horror for all those years? Clearly she was typecast after trying and failing not to be and now is trying to save face by claiming it was all intentional. Year sure. Her last gasp for any kind of celebrity was by showing her breasts in the Halloween remake. End of story. Yet even that didn't last very long as she is now almost exclusively in no budget Z movies that are terrible. To make matters worse she has gotten so dull and lazy as a actress and phones it in nearly every single time. You can tell she feels it's all beneath her but she feels trapped and it's all she can do.