Time slowed and reality bent; on and on the eggman went.

I tend to scare myself.

Sooner or later everything you thought you'd left behind comes around again. For good or ill, it comes around again.

Carrie was a terrific piece of work. At the end of the movie comes, when Amy Irving kneels down to put the flowers on Carrie's grave, a hand comes up through the grave and seizes her by the arm. The audience went to the roof, totally to the roof. It was just the most amazing reaction. And I thought, 'We have a monster hit on our hands. Brian De Palma has done something new. He's actually created a shock ending that shocks an audience that was ready for a horror film.' And there were several people who did it after that.

What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common.

We lie best when we lie to ourselves.

I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.