“I have never read horror, nor do I consider The Exorcist to be such, b...” — William Peter Blatty Quote

“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.”

“I didn't read The Haunting of Hill House until sometime early in the 1990's.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“We mourn the blossoms of May because they are to whither; but we know that May is one day to have its revenge upon November, by the revolution of that solemn circle which never stops---which teaches us in our height of hope, ever to be sober, and in our depth of desolation, never to despair.”

“I was just finishing up 'Spotlight' in Toronto - I finished it on a Tuesday and started 'True Detective' on a Friday. So I was missing rehearsals, unfortunately, which I hate and why I never like to work back-to-back.”

“A guy like Bray Wyatt, he could easily have played something in 'True Detective.'”

“I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.”

“I think every actor fantasizes about a show where you get to play several characters in one piece and not just Detective Bluestone asking what time you were at the station.”

“It's totally different playing a lawyer and a detective.”

“Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe.”