The Lighthouse' isn't scary. A few people have said it is, but I don't think it is. — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
People return to the same things. Charles Dickens wrote the same story a million times - and 'A Christmas Carol.' — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
I'm trying to communicate with other people about humanity and stuff, man! — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
American audiences, a lot of people couldn't understand a word of 'The Witch.' — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
I was interested in dark subject matter for sure, including folklore, fairy tales, mythology, archetypal stories of people going into the bowels… — 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
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
When we learned about Salem at school, the whole thing was confusing. Because the idea of the witch hunt is used as… — 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
There's a lot of cool stuff going on in independent film. But obviously, yeah - all the comic-book-franchise stuff is deeply boring.… — 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
