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

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.

I am fascinated with times past.

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

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

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