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

You don't blame us for being here, do you? After all, we have no place to go. No home... Incidentally, what an excellent day for an exorcism.

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.

But a myth, to speak plainly, to me is like a menu in a fancy French restaurant: glamorous, complicated camouflage for a fact you wouldn't otherwise swallow, like maybe lima beans.

The demon is a liar. He will lie to confuse us; but he will also mix lies with the truth to attack us. His attack is psychological, Damien. And powerful.

What looked like morning was the beginning of endless night

I didn't read The Haunting of Hill House until sometime early in the 1990's.

God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials.

And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its existence.

Procrastination is what we often call 'resistance.

I lived in Georgetown in the late 70s about four houses down from the steps.

It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye. Then it's fun and games you can't see anymore.

What could anyone confess that would be worth anything or serve any useful purpose? What has happened to us has either happened to everyone or to us alone

She could tell he was exhausted, maybe half as much as she was, but he was still willing to do anything for her. It made her sad, someone being this loyal to her.

I'm a great sports fan, you know. I love to watch tennis and basketball and baseball and so on.

The surest way to reveal one's character is not through adversity but by giving them power.

I absolutely think that it's possible for us to find common ground.

I wasn't the most popular girl in school by any means.

We never played China, India or Africa. We also haven't played Russia enough. I would love to play those places.

My goal was to show that even if people work in a garage or a supermarket, they have very funny things to say. We never hear their voices.

Contentment is an undervalued grace.