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.

Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls.

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

The amazing thing about any movie is not whether it's good, but that it got made at all.

I think a story should take as long to tell as it is appropriate to that particular story.

I think once you've finished a movie you really have to detach from it so that you can come back and watch it as an audience member.