Boy, I'd hate to shoot on tape or disc or whatever the hell they're talking about. I love film.

A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should.

The Exorcist' is amazing because it recognizes that silences can be as powerful as sound effects.

If you're going to succeed, you've got to be like one of those punch-drunk fighters in the old Warner Bros. boxing pictures: too stupid to fall down, you just keep slugging and stay on your feet.

Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls.

I think a story should take as long to tell as it is appropriate to that particular story.

Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.

To me, length is an artificial and arbitrary factor in a film.

The amazing thing about any movie is not whether it's good, but that it got made at all.

I just tell you what a pleasure it is to get back to the kind of filmmaking I used to be allowed to do.

I'd like to think that my films are personal enough to exist without hearkening back to their respective novels.

The path for those who go with the truth is not is not that smooth. Guns, crosses and hangmen in the gallows are waiting for them!

I realize my heart is forever Inexperienced. It does fall for the same tricks over and over again

Avoid having to pump your brakes by keeping your flow on cruise control.

I just have always wanted to shave my head. I think every woman should just do it once in her lifetime.

Diseases of the eye are to bee cured with the elbow.

Don't ever, ever, ever give up, because you're here for a reason, even if it's just to laugh at cats on the internet.

Logic doesn't apply to the real world.

Sometimes I wish I had an easy answer for why I'm depressed.

All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards.