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

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

None of the chase scenes that I did had any opticals. We had to do all of that physically. The first thing you have to do is see it in your mind's eye. You have to envision it. Imagine someone knitting a sweater or a scarf. They either have a pattern in front of them, or they see a pattern in their mind's eye. Then it's one stitch at a time. That's what shooting a chase is like.

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

To me, the art of cinema is the same as the art of painting. The artist takes a 2D medium and gives you the illusion of depth. If you look at any of the great paintings, you have the illusion of depth. Which is part of the art. The same with the great movies.

I believe it's true that there's good and evil in everyone and it's a constant struggle to have your better angels prevail.

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.