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

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

When you make a Blu-ray, its not the same as the print process was. You have little or no control over any print that was ever made. You are a victim of the 35mm printing process.

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.

And it was only a week later that I realized a close up of Steve McQueen was worth the greatest landscape you could find.

'Star Wars' gave birth to all the computer-generated superhero films.

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.