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.

I really think that sex always looks kind of funny in a movie.

I've seen my own films close to a thousand times in one form or another. When you edit them. When you shoot them. Then you run them over and over again for sound and music. Then you'd go to premiere screenings, and have to do promotional screenings in other cities. I can't watch any of my old films.

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

The art of movies is to allow the audience to suspend their disbelief. They need to use their imaginations.

Technique is of less interest than character and story.

Sure, you could go out and make Jaws today. But all of the sequels to Jaws weren't good. They are all worthless. The Godfather II is the only sequel that I have ever seen that is as good as or better than the original.