I bow down to the altar of genre, because it allowed me to get 'The Witch' financed. — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
The Witch' was very well planned, but 'The Lighthouse' was so much more so. — 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 think the thing that is most influential about 'Haxan' is the casting of the witches as just old women and the… — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
Basically, I was always disappointed that the witches weren't real when we learned about the Salem witch trials. — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
The intention behind 'The Witch' was to be very restrained. I think that story, while it sometimes annoys me, needed to take… — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
I've talked about this a lot, but 'The Witch' took four years to finance because there were certain compromises I wouldn't make. — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
I would definitely agree that 'The Witch' doesn't leave much of anything to the imagination. There are some ambiguities about 'The Witch,'… — 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
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
