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

The studios mostly threw away the negatives of the classic films. They had no interest in their legacy.

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.

The only gay people who remain in the closet are those who choose to, who don't want to publicly declare their sexuality, which is true of heterosexual people as well. I don't walk around with a button or a T-shirt that says "I am a heterosexual." I don't think sexuality defines a person. It's one small part of who you are, in my view. You are many things, and I never felt that people were defined by their sexuality solely. Although God knows, as a minority, gay people have taken serious lumps for their sexual preferences. As has every minority.

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.

Star Wars is one of a handful of films that changed the zeitgeist forever.

Ive never seen a more terrifying film than 'The Bababook'. It will scare the hell out of you as it did me.