Donald Pleasence Quotes

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• I was offered a choice of a flat salary up front or a percentage of the film's future earnings. I took the up front money.…
• The first Halloween was very well made. The second one was also well made, though I didn't like it as well as the first one.…
• John and I had a few meetings about what direction the sequel should take. I made some real insane suggestions. True to what you'd expect,…
• I do think the story in Halloween 5 is a bit stupid, and there's a lot more blood. They're obviously going to take the Halloween…
• John Carpenter created the idea of Halloween, so his vision remains the most focused and intelligently directed of the series. The directors that have followed…
• 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…
• Loomis has always felt himself responsible for the fact that he did not stop Michael when he first murdered his sister, and so he's got…
• I am not one of those actors who believes he has to live the part he is playing. I can turn it on and off.
• Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach.
• I believe you can frighten people without showing their heads caved-in.
• I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines.
• I think people have a tendency to read into more than there is.
• I loved working with Jamie Lee Curtis, and I felt she was a wonderful actress even that early in her career.
• The process of creation goes on all the time. When I get through, I feel I know what the character will do in every situation.…
• What can I tell you about things like Circus of Horrors except that I get killed by the bear?
• The play is on top of me all the time, and I am constantly thinking about it. Even when I leave the theatre, I'll mumble…
• I'm hardly physically right for the hero parts, now am I?
• I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do.
• The process of building a part doesn't really stop.
• I don't really know how many films I've done, and I don't look at this as a race that I necessarily want to win. Nor…

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