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'The Exorcist' Director William Friedkin: "I Didn't Set Out to Make a Horror Film"; The 80-year-old Oscar-winning director honored a day before Halloween at the staircase from the film in Washington, D.C.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter just days before Halloween, the Oscar-winning director of what many consider to be the scariest movie ever made talks about modern horror films, his disdain for Exorcist sequels, his upcoming honor and more.
“I thought it was a film about the mystery of faith … but I didn’t set out to make a horror film, ” says Friedkin, who turned 80 in August. “But by now, I have accepted that it is [a horror film].”
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