I'm a big fan of silent cinema and I think that before I got into the canon of European arthouse cinema, the first interesting films I liked as a kid were German expressionist silent films. — 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
