I bow down to the altar of genre, because it allowed me to get 'The Witch' financed. — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
Ben Wheatley continues to be one of the most original voices in contemporary film. — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
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
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 mean, obviously it's exciting for me to see what 'The Revenant' is doing in the box office. That's very exciting. — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
For some reason, no one wanted to give me money to make a movie written in early modern English that involved a… — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
When 'The Lighthouse,' bizarrely, became the film that people wanted to greenlight, it was really clear that those were the only two… — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
So we didn't have any stars for 'The Witch.' A24 felt they needed something special for marketing, and they wanted to have… — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
I actually like 'The Shining' more than I like Kubrick, I think. The tension he sustains through the whole film is so… — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
Certainly as a director you want to be working with people who are on the same page as you and that you… — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
Being a wannabe auteur and my favorite filmmakers being part of the dead canon of European, Japanese art-house masters, I want to… — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
Look, some days, you have to film a sequence in which the rain is pounding down on someone and you're just turning… — 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
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
