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Donald Pleasence

"I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do."

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A.E. Samaan

"My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer."

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A.E. Samaan

"You know, whatever happens between the two of us that's created when we come together as actors is not something I think we can explain."

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A.E. Samaan

"I watch actors destroy themselves by trying to get it right."

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A.E. Samaan

"A lot of talented actors still have to pay their bills."

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A.E. Samaan

"I do think that's so much a part of what being a director is - in working with actors - to really try and be sensitive to what each actor needs to get to where he wants to be."

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A.E. Samaan

"I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director."

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A.E. Samaan

"I couldn't have left my career as an actor on a better note than to have done a cameo in the Lost In Space movie. Doing this part is the highlight of my career. What a way to leave the profession!"

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A.E. Samaan

"I'm an actor who hates dialogue and the present day and reality."

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A.E. Samaan

"For no. 1, it's great writing, super writing. The second thing is that it's great chemistry with all the actors. We just all got along from the very start. Very get-go, we all got along. We just - it was just like we were all meant to be there together."

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A.E. Samaan

"I've turned my guest house into this little studio, and we have actors come over and do readings."

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Donald Pleasence
"I think people have a tendency to read into more than there is."

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

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Donald Pleasence
"All the real work is done in the rehearsal period."

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Donald Pleasence
"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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Donald Pleasence
"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."

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

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Donald Pleasence
"It's gotten to the point where it's big news when I don't do a horror film."

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