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

I just tell you what a pleasure it is to get back to the kind of filmmaking I used to be allowed to do.

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

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

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

If you're going to succeed, you've got to be like one of those punch-drunk fighters in the old Warner Bros. boxing pictures: too stupid to fall down, you just keep slugging and stay on your feet.

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