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William Peter Blatty

"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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Donna Grant

"Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him."

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Donna Grant

"Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine."

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Donna Grant

"I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies."

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Donna Grant

"There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things."

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Donna Grant

"The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed."

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Donna Grant

"I think the reason we're so crazy sexually in America is that all our responses are acting. We don't know how to feel. We know how it looked in the movies."

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Donna Grant

"Yes, I'm going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks by being in the movies? You can really get chicks by being the President."

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Donna Grant

"I coach my daughter's softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night and take the kids to the movies. We try to be as normal as we can."

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Donna Grant

"Nowadays they either want to move the film to Canada or in some cases they go to Prague or Romania or they want to keep 'em down in L.A."

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Donna Grant

"But you know, there's always a danger nowadays that films are gonna be brought up to Canada for budget reasons. And that's something that really concerns me."

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William Peter Blatty
"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."

Movies

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William Peter Blatty
"Well, the research into it affected me. And the novel, it very much strengthened my faith."

Faith

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William Peter Blatty
"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."

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William Peter Blatty
"Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current."

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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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William Peter Blatty
"I'm not aware that I was consciously influenced by any director, though these things often happen unnoticed, submerged in the unconscious."

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William Peter Blatty
"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."

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William Peter Blatty
"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."

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William Peter Blatty
"I didn't read The Haunting of Hill House until sometime early in the 1990's."

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William Peter Blatty
"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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