Quotes about exorcist (16 Quotes)



    One of the reasons I don't have kids is because I think people would have been very unfair to them. Think of it. You're still asking me questions about The Exorcist.

    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.

    The problem with The Exorcist was that I wasn't holding any cards. They paid me for the movie, so they own the movie. It's like if you made this chair and I buy it from you. You want me to sit on the chair, and I want to put it in my fireplace. What are you gonna do Time to go off and make another chair.



    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.


    The greatest misconception about horror fans is that they just love gore. They love the things that horror cinema can do that they can't get anywhere else, and I think to really frighten a contemporary audience, you just can't do that with special effects and sound and camera tricks, ... You can't out-'Exorcist' 'The Exorcist,' so you sort of have to almost go under it in a sense.


    When I was 13 I asked my mother if it was possible for this to end - I'd had enough of it. And that was right about the time that we got a call for "The Exorcist" interview.




    I kind of look at death metal like movies. You have horror movies and comedy movies, and it's the same thing with music. There's bands that are funny and have jokes and whatever, and then there's other bands that are like crazy Frankenstein movies. That's something that I've been into since I was a kid. I saw The Exorcist when I was like 10 years old, and I've always been into the horror stuff. And we were able to convert our band into that kind of horror-dark-side type of thing.


    The leaders of the Catholic Church endorsed The Exorcist virtually promoted it as much as they could. The Cardinals of New York and Los Angeles and Chicago and the other big cities, all over the world, they endorsed it because it represents a literal depiction of the Roman ritual of exorcism which still exists in the Catholic faith. It's still there. The power of faith to drive out demons. And this film showed that and they embraced it.



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