Donald Pleasence Quotes About Halloween

• The idea of dying and coming back is what makes the Halloween films work.

  Donald Pleasence

  Halloween, Ideas, Dying

• 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.

  Donald Pleasence

  Halloween, Lying, Bullets

• 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.

  Donald Pleasence

  Halloween, Choices, Salary

• 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.

  Donald Pleasence

  Halloween, Firsts, Made

• 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.

  Donald Pleasence

  Real, Halloween, Insane

• 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.

  Donald Pleasence

  Halloween, Stupid, Thinking

• 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 have kept the original intent of the concept.

  Donald Pleasence

  Halloween, Ideas, Vision

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