Quotes About 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.

You don't blame us for being here, do you? After all, we have no place to go. No home... Incidentally, what an excellent day for an exorcism.

You don't blame us for being here, do you? After all, we have no place to go. No home... Incidentally, what an excellent day for an exorcism...

Merrin began buttoning up the cassock. "Especially important is the warning to avoid conversations with the demon." The demon!

I'm not saying I'm against evolution. It's okay. Here's the story on reptiles, however. Think this over. They come up on

funeral," he said. "I just saw him. He is here in this ward in a

Well, it's sometimes the symptom of a type of disturbance in the chemicoelectrical activity of

It was a green stone head of the demon Pazuzu, personification of the southwest wind.

That's right. He was smacking his lips a little, that's all." "He was smacking his lips a little?" "Well, yes." Kinderman

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.