I can't sit through the superhero films. But I watched Draft Day, and it was kind of sweet in an old-fashioned way.

When you make a Blu-ray, its not the same as the print process was. You have little or no control over any print that was ever made. You are a victim of the 35mm printing process.

With The Exorcist we said what we wanted to say. Neither one of us view it as a horror film. We view it as a film about the mysteries of faith. It's easier for people to call it a horror film. Or a great horror film. Or the greatest horror film ever made. Whenever I see that, I feel a great distance from it.

I don't like 3D. I don't believe there is any film that I have seen and loved that would have been improved by a scintilla in 3D. To me, it's just a gimmick.

Star Wars is one of a handful of films that changed the zeitgeist forever.

God knows, as a minority, gay people have taken serious lumps for their sexual preferences. As has every minority.

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