For me, 'The Haunting of Hill House' is a series about life after a haunting, what happens after the credits roll in… — Mike Flanagan Copy Share Image
For me it's about creating and sustaining tension for as long as possible, and I'm not generally interested in allowing that tension… — Mike Flanagan Copy Share Image
One of the things about horror movies that I've noticed with the children I've worked with is that they have a great… — Mike Flanagan Children Copy Share Image
Well, I'm always drawn to the drama first. A story is really only interesting to me, if you can remove all of… — Mike Flanagan Copy Share Image
Horror is fascinating because it's so seasonal and it's like you've got these periods where slasher movies are in and it's like… — Mike Flanagan Horror Copy Share Image
I always tend to tilt dark on an ending, because I feel like, especially with horror movies, those are the endings that… — Mike Flanagan Dark Copy Share Image
I grew up in a very healthy nuclear family, and I was fortunate enough to not have to deal with loss and… — Mike Flanagan Childhood Copy Share Image
I hate jump scares. I really hate them. I think there's nothing special about being able to startle someone - that's an… — Mike Flanagan Hate Copy Share Image
Pattern modeling is very useful and a major step, but users don't always conform to those patterns. For example, when there is… — Mike Flanagan Phone calls Copy Share Image
I saw 'The Shining' in eighth grade. I watched it on VHS at a sleepover and was petrified, totally petrified. And I… — Mike Flanagan Filmmaking Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer in building a crew. Movies are the most collaborative art form at the tend of the world, and… — Mike Flanagan Art Copy Share Image
There's nothing scarier than silence. A lot of horror movies lean on hits and score to try and create tension, which actually… — Mike Flanagan Copy Share Image
A viewer's imagination is a powerful storyteller, and can often come up with things way more frightening than what you can explicitly… — Mike Flanagan Horror Copy Share Image
When I first started out and would go on pitch meetings, there was always this kind of eye-roll that would come with… — Mike Flanagan Copy Share Image
I started off making backyard movies. I think it began in fifth grade - I'd get the friends together and we'd make… — Mike Flanagan Cinema Copy Share Image
Audiences have grown to equate being startled with being scared, and will complain that a movie 'isn't scary enough' if it doesn't… — Mike Flanagan Character Copy Share Image
I'm wide open to evidence of the supernatural, but I also think that the majority of those experiences are probably natural phenomena… — Mike Flanagan Copy Share Image
I'm always drawn toward family drama, and dysfunctional family stories. It speaks to me, in a really profound way, and I think… — Mike Flanagan Drama Copy Share Image
I do not have the female experience. I don't, and I strive to understand it, but I'll never truly be able to.… — Mike Flanagan Experience Copy Share Image
I think in a lot of ways, 'The Shining' is about alcoholism and 'Doctor Sleep' is actually about recovery. They go together… — Mike Flanagan Doctor Copy Share Image
We always try to leave room for the actors to come in and make discoveries on set, in their interpretation of the… — Mike Flanagan Actors Copy Share Image
A movie studio has to answer to a marketing department, and to shareholders, to ensure the broadest audience possible for its product;… — Mike Flanagan Copy Share Image
There is only one act of violence in 'The Strangers' and it comes at the very, very end... the movie could have… — Mike Flanagan Copy Share Image
We're all storytellers in this business, and I personally love to sit back and watch someone tell a story. If it's done… — Mike Flanagan Business Copy Share Image
Audiences are embracing more and more unique material. I think they can sense the cynicism when people are just cranking something out… — Mike Flanagan Audiences Copy Share Image
I never shoot my movies like I'm shooting 'a horror movie,' I shoot them like dramas. Dramas and then something horrible happens. — Mike Flanagan Cinema Copy Share Image
Whenever I would see horror movies I would be traumatized and I'd have to watch them behind my hands or behind the… — Mike Flanagan Copy Share Image
