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.

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

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

God knows, as a minority, gay people have taken serious lumps for their sexual preferences. As has every minority.

The Blu-ray is the real cinematech of world cinema. That's how it's being preserved. All of these guys that are trying to preserve 35mm negatives? They are wasting their time. There are better ways to see and project this stuff. It's called digital.

I had absolutely no focus as a kid. I never paid attention at school, I never went to college. Not because we were too poor; we were. But if I wanted to go to college, I would have found a way.

When you go to a studio with something you want to make, or they come to you with something they want to make, more often than not, it's a tent pole. Not something one single person is really passionate about on a creative level.