I don't go to the movies much anymore. There's very little that draws me. I watch mostly the older stuff, and I often don't sit through the new films.

There are many untalented people making millions of dollars in the film business.

To me, the art of movies is to take a two-dimensional image and give the illusion of depth.

But the audience is right. They're always, always right. You hear directors complain that the advertising was lousy, the distribution is no good, the date was wrong to open the film. I don't believe that. The audience is never wrong. Never.

Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest - I will say the greatest

I have seen lampoons of my work. And I have really enjoyed them. But I would never do another version of The Exorcist.

I don't believe that Citizen Kane or Gone With the Wind, or any damn picture that you can name, would be better off in 3D. I think it's a gimmick. I find 3D distracting.