Monday, June 24, 2013

Television and Cinema Verities #75



“We sent Nick Castle out to find a bunch of masks and he brought them all back. It was John and Debra who really loved that one – and that was the key to the movie – the blank everyman. The fact that the face had no expression was more fearful. I think that set the tone for the way the character behaved."

-Irwin Yablans describes the creation of Michael Myers in Halloween (1978), at David Onda's Movie Blog, in the interview: "How Ingenuity and Desperation Created Halloween." (October 2012).

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