Words matter. These are the best Donald Pleasence Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach.
The idea of dying and coming back is what makes the Halloween films work.
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, he ignored them all and just picked up Halloween II where the original left off.
I believe you can frighten people without showing their heads caved-in.
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. Nobody could have figured what Halloween would ultimately become.
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 out of the window and seeing no one lying there.
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. The third one had nothing to do with the series at all and perhaps shouldn’t have been made at all.
At this point in my career, it doesn’t bother me much that I’m probably hopelessly typecast. I like to work, and horror films definitely keep me working.
What can I tell you about things like Circus of Horrors except that I get killed by the bear?
I’m hardly physically right for the hero parts, now am I?
I loved working with Jamie Lee Curtis, and I felt she was a wonderful actress even that early in her career.
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.
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 series in a different direction.
All the real work is done in the rehearsal period.
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 the lines to myself or think about the way the character walks or holds himself.
