Academy - award winning director William Friedkin
discusses his early career — including making documentaries for David L. Wolper, working for Alfred Hitchcock and what he learned from studying his films, and directing his first movie Good Times (1967), starring Sonny and Cher; how his career path led to making The Exorcist, his initial reaction to reading the source material, the story's theme of Good versus Evil, and the role his own faith played in his approach to making the movie; the
techniques he used to generate suspense and fear in the audience, his use of subliminal
imagery, and his reasons for recently restoring deleted footage to the film.