I get cassettes near Academy Award time of every movie that's made that thinks it has some kind of chance for a nomination - that's when I watch my movies

I'm not aware that I was consciously influenced by any director, though these things often happen unnoticed, submerged in the unconscious.

The terror drifted over georgetown like the sun over a blind mans eyes

Earth is a homicide victim. We lose our children. There are wars. Disease. And God comes strolling by like a cosmic Billie Burke.

Procrastination is what we often call 'resistance.

I have never read horror, nor do I consider The Exorcist to be such, but rather as a suspenseful supernatural detective story, or paranormal police procedural.

For I think belief in God is not a matter of reason at all; I think it finally is a matter of love.