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Donald Pleasence

"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."

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"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."

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"The real battlefield is the realm of ideas."

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"Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness."

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"My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with."

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"From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do this!"

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"In the jungle of ideas, it is hard to find the true direction! The paths of the wrong ideas often seem to be very alluring!"

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"To move the earth like Archimedes, one needs not a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it. There is an easier way: Give a genius a beautiful remote house in a green valley where he can think calmly, and he shall move the earth with ideas!"

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"Through your ideas, you open the window of your mind and say a hello to the world."

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"I couldn't tell you what I am going to do next 'cause I have no idea, but I am open to anything."

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"Even the recognition of an individual whom we see every day is only possible as the result of an abstract idea of him formed by generalization from his appearances in the past."

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"Unless you close your door to other ideas, you will never remain idealess!"

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"All the real work is done in the rehearsal period."
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"I loved working with Jamie Lee Curtis, and I felt she was a wonderful actress even that early in her career."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines."
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"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. But the building up of the part is not mechanical or deliberate. It grows out of the text."
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