When you go to a studio with something you want to make, or they come to you with something they want to make, more often than not, it's a tent pole. Not something one single person is really passionate about on a creative level.

If you're a movie star, the studios don't want you to act. They just want you to show up and look good and chase girls and have a lot of laughs.

I don't look back or analyze my films. I just make them. It's for someone else to look at.

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

The thing that interests me is the good and evil in everybody. I don't have conventional heroes in the films that I directed, because I believe there's good and evil in everybody.

I have to see the whole scene in my head before I go out and do it. Which I do. I will envision the entire scene before I shoot it.

If you call yourself a non-believer, you're referring to disbelief in something, and you're acknowledging that there is something to believe in or not.