There are films that I've made that I like a little bit more than the others. But the films that I mostly watch, and see over and over again, are not my own.

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.

Directing is a nice job. It's the best job for me. If I had to pay money to do it, I would do it... Directing is playing. Acting.

'Star Wars' gave birth to all the computer-generated superhero films.

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.

You are always cheating for the audience.

In the case of a film like The Exorcist or To Live and Die in L.A., I saw the whole movie in my head before I went to shoot it. I never did storyboards, or anything like that. I had the film in my head.