Donald Pleasence Quotes

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

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.

What can I tell you about things like Circus of Horrors except that I get killed by the bear?

I loved working with Jamie Lee Curtis, and I felt she was a wonderful actress even that early in her career.

It’s gotten to the point where it’s big news when I don’t do a horror film.

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’m hardly physically right for the hero parts, now am I?

I believe you can frighten people without showing their heads caved-in.

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 think people have a tendency to read into more than there is.

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 do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines.

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.

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.