Audiences are savvy. You can never go wrong assuming the best of them. — Mike Flanagan Assuming Copy Share Image
I'm sure many more people saw 'Hush' in the first weekend it was on Netflix than saw 'Oculus' in theatres. — Mike Flanagan More Copy Share Image
Gerald's Game,' we could not have made it at a studio without substantive changes to the story. — Mike Flanagan Changes Copy Share Image
With 'Gerald's Game' in particular, we didn't have enough money or time and it was really hard. — Mike Flanagan Enough Copy Share Image
Well, as a kid I did all the Bloody Mary games and using a mirror to scare yourself. — Mike Flanagan Bloody mary Copy Share Image
I'm a firm believer that what you don't see is always scarier than what you do. — Mike Flanagan Always Copy Share Image
I don't like the fact people watch things on their phones and tablets, it kind of hurts my heart. — Mike Flanagan Heart Copy Share Image
When horror is about something - capital-A about - that's when it's really landing. — Mike Flanagan About Copy Share Image
I always liked the challenge of that, how to take an inanimate object and build something around it that's scary. — Mike Flanagan Always Copy Share Image
Midnight Mass' is kind of my baby; I've been working on that for six years. I started writing it while 'Oculus' was… — Mike Flanagan Baby Copy Share Image
I associate a family as the safest place in the world. So when it comes to things that scare me, introducing instability… — Mike Flanagan Family Copy Share Image
Gerald's Game' had such an impact on me when I read the book in college that I think I've actually, consciously or… — Mike Flanagan Book Copy Share Image
When I read Doctor Sleep, when it was first published, I was so taken with getting to spend time with Danny Torrance… — Mike Flanagan Again Copy Share Image
I like to say that Hollywood is one of the most democratic entities in the world and the reason why is every… — Mike Flanagan Democratic Copy Share Image
People will bemoan the quality of horror but then they'll go out and support horror films that are lacking qualities that they… — Mike Flanagan Cinema Copy Share Image
For me, 'The Haunting of Hill House' is a series about life after a haunting, what happens after the credits roll in… — Mike Flanagan Happens Copy Share Image
When I got to high school, they had a morning TV show you could become a part of, and I started making… — Mike Flanagan High school Copy Share Image
My gravity is always towards original material but 'Gerald's Game,' I read it when I was nineteen years old, I got to… — Mike Flanagan Books Copy Share Image
I forget who said it, but there's that saying: 'Films are never finished, they're abandoned.' There's always something you think you can… — Mike Flanagan Better Copy Share Image
I think it was in sixth grade, though, when I picked up my first Stephen King book, which was 'It,' that knocked… — Mike Flanagan Books Copy Share Image
Thanks to 'It,' you're going to see the studios take a lot more chances on a very specific vision. An R-rated horror… — Mike Flanagan Children Copy Share Image
What's so exciting and unstoppable about the horror genre is that I view it all as metaphorical exploration. It's the safe place… — Mike Flanagan Culture 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 Hands 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
Depending on how 'Doctor Sleep' does, we'll see what movie opportunities there will be. — Mike Flanagan Doctor Copy Share Image
When you talk about people being haunted or wrestling demons, that is a rich metaphor. — Mike Flanagan Demon Copy Share Image
I am always fascinated by the mental struggles that people and characters have. — Mike Flanagan Adversity Copy Share Image
I did not growing up watching a lot of horror. I wasn't allowed a lot of it and I was a real… — Mike Flanagan Allowed Copy Share Image
Horror movies feel like comedies when you're making them because everybody laughs so much. — Mike Flanagan Comedies 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
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
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
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 Always 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 About Copy Share Image
