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

Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current.

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

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.

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.

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'd sold the book first. Actually to a paperback publisher. I had nothing. I just had the idea.

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.

Well, the research into it affected me. And the novel, it very much strengthened my faith.

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 lived in Georgetown in the late '70s about four houses down from the steps.

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.

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

When the filter is weakened by a powerful drug what we see is not delusion but the truth.

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

No doubt Western civilization has in the past been full of wars and revolutions, and the national elements in our culture, even when they were ignored, always provided an unconscious driving force of passion and aggressive self-assertion.

A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.

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

Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.

The thing is, if you believe in the unconscious - and I do - there's room for all kinds of possibilities that I don't know how you prove one way or another.

We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character.

Ancient eschatological texts are actually maps of the inner territories of the psyche that seem to transcend race and culture and originate in the collective unconscious.

All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious is.

Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the goddess Venus from the sea of our unconscious.

The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.

But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting off the turf where my husband and I might be rivals. We were both working in fiction... so I look back and I see that I consciously vacated the contested ground.

Freud has shown one thing very clearly: that we only forget our infancy by burying it in the unconscious; and that the problems of this difficult period find their solution under a disguised form in adult life.

Ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness' - it is profoundly unconscious.

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.

I write because something inner and unconscious forces me to. That is the first compulsion. The second is one of ethical and moral duty. I feel responsible to tell stories that inspire readers to consider more deeply who they are.

My specialties are corpses, unconscious people and people snoring in spectacular epics.

The Internet has usurped the collective unconscious and access to cosmic consciousness has become difficult and almost primitive.

The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious.

The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of conscious intent, but in the murky realm of the unconscious mind.

Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human.

I believe in the unconscious state of the mind in death.

Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious.

I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.

Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.

The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.

A World is not an ideology nor a scientific institution, nor is it even a system of ideologies; rather, it is a structure of unconscious relations and symbiotic processes.

If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.

The images attempt to capture scientific thought. They represent the physical manifestation of the thought process. Everything in the laboratory is a product of a stream of conscious or unconscious thought.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.