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Well, the research into it affected me. And the novel, it very much strengthened my faith.
- William Peter Blatty
#Faith
#Me
#Much
#Research
#Well
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
#Aware
#Director
#Happen
#Things
#Though
I'd sold the book first. Actually to a paperback publisher. I had nothing. I just had the idea.
- William Peter Blatty
#Actually
#Book
#First
#Just
#Nothing
I tried to make every bit of it as creepy as I could. And I had the same response you do. I feel the same way. The hospital scenes, that procedure was so real.
- William Peter Blatty
#Feel
#Hospital
#Real
#Tried
#Way
I lived in Georgetown in the late '70s about four houses down from the steps.
- William Peter Blatty
#About
#Down
#Four
#Late
#Lived
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.
- William Peter Blatty
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#Chance
#Movies
#Nomination
#Time
I didn't read The Haunting of Hill House until sometime early in the 1990's.
- William Peter Blatty
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#Haunting
#Hill
#House
#Until
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
#Down
#Every
#Me
#Press
#Studio
I have never read horror, nor do I consider The Exorcist to be such, but rather as a suspenseful supernatural detective story, or paranormal police procedural.
- William Peter Blatty
#Horror
#Never
#Paranormal
#Police
#Story
I've been campaigning like anything for restoring these changes. For 27 years. I wrote a book about it, well, a portion of the book was devoted to these scenes and why they should have been in the movie.
- William Peter Blatty
#Anything
#Book
#Campaigning
#Well
#Why
Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current.
- William Peter Blatty
#Horror
#Interest
#Know
#Me
#Old
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.
- William Peter Blatty
#Comedy
#Me
#Memory
#Sad
#Truth
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