I'd like to think that my films are personal enough to exist without hearkening back to their respective novels.

I spent 20 years of my career primarily being a writer for hire.

I've never been a big fan of the music-video style of editing movies that crept in the last few decades. I like stuff that's able to take its time.

The Exorcist' is amazing because it recognizes that silences can be as powerful as sound effects.

The only person who can, with impunity, make the movie he wants to make, has got to be Steven Spielberg.

Stanley Kubrick was a big inspiration. People accuse me of never using my own material. But when did Kubrick? You look at his films and they are completely unique... completely separate entities.

Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.