Exorcist Quotations | Page 2

I'm a huge fan of 'The Exorcist.'

The power of Christ compels you!

I had no way to have a sense of humor about The Exorcist. I didn't know how. And this enabled me.

I don't believe that anymore but you certainly know that world. But I wasn't Catholic. It was slightly different. The metaphorical strength of that stuff, of those stories, whether it's stories from the Bible or stories from contemporary mythology like The Exorcist have enormous metaphorical weight.

Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.

In the case of a film like The Exorcist or To Live and Die in L.A., I saw the whole movie in my head before I went to shoot it. I never did storyboards, or anything like that. I had the film in my head.

I have seen lampoons of my work. And I have really enjoyed them. But I would never do another version of The Exorcist.

I play Father Francis in 'The Exorcist Prequel.' It's fantastic. We are shooting in Morrocco and Rome. Paul Schrader is directing; Stellan Skarsgard plays the younger Max Von Sydow character. It's just a fantastic script. It's a very eerie, very scary script. It encomposes a growing dread that I think is really appropriate for the film.

It's very hard to find The Exorcist or Jaws that will really get under your skin... Psycho... make you afraid to get in the shower. Those ideas are few and far between, rare.