I have to see the whole scene in my head before I go out and do it. Which I do. I will envision the entire scene before I shoot it.
I'm not a fan of 3D. But I am a huge fan of digital imagery. Because it allows a filmmaker much more latitude to appreciate their own visions and dreams.
You don't leave the film alone. You have a new audience, and you have a new medium. Why would you leave it alone? Film is not an antique. It's not a relic. It's not a Leonardo da Vinci. I don't want someone painting over a da Vinci or Rembrandt. But these movies aren't that.
The thing that interests me is the good and evil in everybody. I don't have conventional heroes in the films that I directed, because I believe there's good and evil in everybody.
The digital process gives me total control over how I want the film to look. The films look like they did when I was first looking through the viewfinder.
I have seen lampoons of my work. And I have really enjoyed them. But I would never do another version of The Exorcist.
I'm not a fan of Star Wars. That is not for me. That is for my nephews and nieces. I don't get it.
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.
'Star Wars' gave birth to all the computer-generated superhero films.
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.
I can't sit through the superhero films. But I watched Draft Day, and it was kind of sweet in an old-fashioned way.
All the great countries are at odds with one another over something, and yet if they don't cooperate they're going to blow up.
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.
Sam Jackson is a director's dream. Some actors hope to find their character during shooting. He knows his character before shooting. Sam's old-school. I just got out of his way. I never did more than two takes with Sam.-william friedkin
Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest - I will say the greatest
