William Peter Blatty: Self

Quotes 

• William Peter Blatty : [on Pauline Kael]  She's part of a small set of elitist reviewers in New York who - who have - are so trapped inside the squirrel cage of their egos that their view of the objective world of reality outside is necessarily very blurred.

• William Peter Blatty : That's what bugged Pauline Kael; uh, she said this is the, uh, greatest recruiting poster for organized religion since Going My Way. And it irritates the hell out of her. You know, I really think Miss Kael needs a, a - has a speech impediment. Maybe her brain... which, uh, if I've, uh - if I've located its, uh, position correctly, uh... the enema should solve.

• William Peter Blatty : [on The Exorcist]  It's touching a nerve. And I wonder how often that nerve is the realization that the horror on that screen - that demon - is the ultimate father to, the ultimate blood relation to, and the ultimate destiny of cheating your brother and calling it business.