If I'm going to make a genre film, it has to be personal and it has to be good. — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
Murnau is neck to neck with Bergman as my favorite director. He's responsible for some of the best images in cinema of… — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
As a second-time director you don't want to be working with someone who's a star that wants you to get down and… — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
If you could custom build new cinemas for every release of every movie, I think filmmakers would work in a lot of… — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
I am not trying to be one of those sadistic, Kubrickian directors who is trying to make these tensions any worse or… — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
Folk tales, fairy tales, religion, the occult - these are the things I'm most passionate about, even more than cinema. And I'm… — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
After I made my first short film that wasn't terrible, people were interested in potentially developing a feature with me. Every time… — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
What I love about research is when I'm having a bad day and I can't write, I'll just research some more, I'll… — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of silent cinema and I think that before I got into the canon of European arthouse cinema, the… — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
The Witch' was very well planned, but 'The Lighthouse' was so much more so. — Robert Eggers Copy Share
The more you try to turn away from darkness, the more darkness is right against your back. — Robert Eggers Copy Share
If I'm going to make a genre film, it has to be personal and it has to be good. — Robert Eggers Copy Share
The Shining' is one of the few horror movies that I actually like and it actually scared me. — Robert Eggers Copy Share
Every actor demands different things. Every human being you come in contact with in your life, you have to deal with in slightly different… — Robert Eggers Copy Share
There's a lot of cool stuff going on in independent film. But obviously, yeah - all the comic-book-franchise stuff is deeply boring. But these… — Robert Eggers Copy Share
What's so interesting to me about history is - what's interesting to anyone - is how humans are the same. Their belief systems were… — Robert Eggers Copy Share
For me, rehearsal is only about blocking and pacing; it's not about performance. — Robert Eggers Copy Share
I bow down to the altar of genre, because it allowed me to get 'The Witch' financed. — Robert Eggers Copy Share
I had these fashion history books that I really enjoyed looking at. I liked costumes and used to wear them to school until I… — Robert Eggers Copy Share
Guillermo del Toro is able to invent his worlds. I would find the pressure of having to invent crippling. — Robert Eggers Copy Share
I wrote a lot of scripts that were dark and fairy tale-like, but too strange. — Robert Eggers Copy Share
