I didn't read The Haunting of Hill House until sometime early in the 1990's.
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Bantam Press. And they commissioned me to write it. And when that was completed, they sold it to Harper and Row. And then I put it out to every movie studio in town. And they all turned it down.William Peter Blatty
Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current.
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I'm not aware that I was consciously influenced by any director, though these things often happen unnoticed, submerged in the unconscious.
William Peter Blatty
I'd sold the book first. Actually to a paperback publisher. I had nothing. I just had the idea.
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I get cassettes near Academy Award time of every movie that's made that thinks it has some kind of chance for a nomination - that's when I watch my movies.
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And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its existence.
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