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
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
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
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
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
There is only one act of violence in 'The Strangers' and it comes at the very, very end... the movie could have… — Mike Flanagan End 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 Answer 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 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 Cheap Copy Share Image
I'm a major NASA nerd, so I've spent a lot of time learning about the space race and the Apollo missions. — Mike Flanagan Learning Copy Share Image
In high school, I started studying movies and not reacting to them emotionally. — Mike Flanagan Education Copy Share Image
Building and sustaining tension is always my priority, so home entertainment provides challenges to that. — Mike Flanagan Always Copy Share Image
With digital technology there's a huge spectrum of flexibility in what you can do to manipulate sound and image - which you… — Mike Flanagan Artificial 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'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'm wide open to evidence of the supernatural, but I also think that the majority of those experiences are probably natural phenomena… — Mike Flanagan Evidence 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 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
What you don't want is for violence and gore to become more important than character and structure. A lot of slasher movies… — Mike Flanagan Character 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 Best 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
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
Whenever you take a general meeting, inevitably you run out of things to talk about, they'd always say, 'What's your dream project?'… — Mike Flanagan Always 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
