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films of all time. here he is speaking about the exorcist in 2008. it's realistic. there is no escape from it. it isn't like there's a lot of distance for the audience, like most of the films in the genre today, where you can laugh. i mean, there will be some laughs but they are nervous laughter based on tension. earlier i spoke to film critic siobhan synnot, she met him a few times and shared her memories. he was very charming and, in fact, he charmed my movie—hating editor so much that he persuaded him to put his picture on the front page of my newspaper. quite an achievement, if you knew my editor. he was as well, of course, one of the highly—regarded directors of the 1970s. up there with spielberg, scorsese, francis ford coppola, and i think his skill was really to treat what other people might have regarded as b—movies with the utmost seriousness.