Donald Pleasence Quotes
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.
What can I tell you about things like Circus of Horrors except that I get killed by the bear?
Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach.
I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines.
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.
I loved working with Jamie Lee Curtis, and I felt she was a wonderful actress even that early in her career.
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.
It's hard to play a continuing character like Loomis for nearly 11 years and simply wash your hands of him. It seems a pity.
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 that guilt to live with.
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.
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 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 is it a race that I want to stop running.
