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.

All the great countries are at odds with one another over something, and yet if they don't cooperate they're going to blow up.

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

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

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.

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.