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

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

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 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.

Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.

By their very nature, heuristic shortcuts will produce biases, and that is true for both humans and artificial intelligence, but the heuristics of AI are not necessarily the human ones.

Prayer is the rope that pulls God and man together. But, it doesn't pull God down to us: It pulls us up to Him.

Hoe while it is spring, and enjoy the best anticipations. It is not much matter if things do not turn out well.

I moved to New York when I was 10, from Rio de Janeiro. So there was no need for driving: I took the subway, cabs and the bus.

It hurts like hell when the world won't invest in you. But it's excruciating, almost more than you can bear, when you don't believe and invest in yourself.

There are two kinds of characters in all fiction, the born and the synthetic. If the writer has to ask himself questions - is he tall, is he short? - he had better quit.

We have to be the best global citizens we can be.

If anything, he seemed a little lonely, all too ready to open his heart at the slightest sign of interst.

To sleep perchance to dream