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"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."
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"Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to."

"One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!"

"I don't find slashing and blood flying everywhere to be scary. I just find it repulsive."

"I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be."

"Every gesture is a gesture from the blood, every expression a symbolic utterance... Everything is of the blood, of the senses."

"Either we're going to solve this by realistic negotiation or there will be blood on the border."
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"I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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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