A biography for Donald Pleasencehasn’t been written yet.
“I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines.”
“The process of building a part doesn't really stop.”
“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.”
“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.”