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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."
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"To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression."
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"Most of the press is sent to my publicist so I do see most of what is written about me."
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"Press coverage has been difficult for him. I did not set out to ensnare him with a child."
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"I don't like everybody knowing what I'm doing, unless it's related to a movie. I don't like speaking to the press. I never did."
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"Then, all of a sudden, here I am in the Press Room in the White House and walking in with the guards, who handed me three little pieces of paper asking me to send pictures to the guards at the White House."
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"We had so much press, and then they get bored... I think we've done well to keep going."
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"With the press there is no "off the record.""
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"Well, they didn't lack for topics after Hiroshima. Why should 9/11 slow them down? I know it got a lot of press, but it's just a few large buildings and aircraft, it's not like D-Day and the Seige of Berlin."
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"A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better."
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"I've had to recover not only from a single well-publicized incident, but several years of press aftermath."
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"Well, the research into it affected me. And the novel, it very much strengthened my faith."
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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."
Creativity
"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."
Press
"I lived in Georgetown in the late '70s about four houses down from the steps."
Houses
"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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"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."
Truth
"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."
Horror
"I'd sold the book first. Actually to a paperback publisher. I had nothing. I just had the idea."
Creativity
"Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current."
Horror
"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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