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"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."
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"I've been playing with Blackwell over 20 years. We used to play when I first went to Los Angeles. Blackwell plays the drums as if he's playing a wind instrument. Actually, he sounds more like a talking drum."
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"We were engaged three-and-a-half weeks after the first date."
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"At synods, I usually wait about a week before I speak. First I listen. I feel the temperature. I listen to what has been said, what has not been said, and what I think needs to be said at that point."
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"When I first see the dailies, I look only at myself, but then you start to see the scene."
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"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
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"The first 12-string guitar I bought was probably around 1957."
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"I always begin to compose the melody first."
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"My first encounter with a Kelly was not on a musical scale. It was from primary school. Dave and I went to primary school together and we were like boy scouts."
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"My first record came out in 1961 and then I had one come out in 1962 and then I had two that came out in 1964."
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"The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure."
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"The process of building a part doesn't really stop."
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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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"I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines."
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"It's gotten to the point where it's big news when I don't do a horror film."
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"I'm hardly physically right for the hero parts, now am I?"
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"The idea of dying and coming back is what makes the Halloween films work."
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"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."
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"I think people have a tendency to read into more than there is."
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"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."
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"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."
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