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

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.

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

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

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

The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.

Humiliation and mental oppression by ignorant and selfish teachers wreak havoc in the youthful mind that can never be undone and often exert a baleful influence in later life.

The path you take is up to you. Make good choices, dream BIG, it is never too late.

You are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the earth, the air. You don’t have a life. You are life.

I'm just a girl from a trailer park who had a dream. I never thought this would ever happen.

I'm typing so f-ing hard I might break my f-ing Mac book Air!!!!!!!!

Don't hide yourself in regret, Just love yourself and you're set I'm on the right track, baby I was born this way

I attribute all of my success to my Catholic faith. My faith has given me the ability to be a good father, a good husband and most importantly a good person.

The barefoot component of my training is about strengthening the toes.

Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.