The studios are making fewer films. They are making more expensive films. Profits are tougher to come by. Not only because of the expense of production. But also because of the expense of promotion and hype. To boil that all down, it's more about hype than it is about filmmaking.

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

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.

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.

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'm not a fan of Star Wars. That is not for me. That is for my nephews and nieces. I don't get it.