We all wind up the same way, no matter what our goals or ambitions are. We have nothing at all to say about how we got into this world or how are going to leave 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.

I have to see the whole scene in my head before I go out and do it. Which I do. I will envision the entire scene before I shoot it.

I don't believe that Citizen Kane or Gone With the Wind, or any damn picture that you can name, would be better off in 3D. I think it's a gimmick. I find 3D distracting.

I don't look back or analyze my films. I just make them. It's for someone else to look at.

The informing idea of what you want to say and do, that's what will take you from film school to professional - the idea. That's what is original to you.

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