"When you're kept by a patron you don't have to duke it out in the media marketplace for dollars and for readers. In some ways that's a blessing because it takes a lot of pressure off you."

“The Revolutionary Hill Estates had not been designed to accommodate a tragedy. Even at night, as if on purpose, the development held no looming shadows and no gaunt silhouettes. It was invincibly cheerful, a toyland of white and pastel houses whose bright, uncurtained windows winked blandly through a dappling of green and yellow leaves … A man running down these streets in desperate grief was indecently out of place.”

“To be able to do this job in the first place you've got to have a bit of an ego.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I've worked with very few directors who've asked of me what I asked of myself.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“...the Church is the merciless heart of the State.”

Source : Pier Paolo Pasolini, Norman MacAfee, Luciano Martinengo (1982). “Poems”, New York : Random House

“Competition is for dogs and horses.”

“What looked like morning was the beginning of endless night”

Source : William Peter Blatty (1971). “The Exorcist”

“It's a really cool time for artists who want to strive for a little more depth in what they want to say to come forward. We live in a very fast world right now. We've got all this media and music which is so accessible to us, it's here one minute gone the next.”

“Truth is so impossible. Something has to be done for it.”