Horror movies feel like comedies when you're making them because everybody laughs so much. — Mike Flanagan Comedies 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
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
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 grew up in a very healthy nuclear family, and I was fortunate enough to not have to deal with loss and… — Mike Flanagan Children 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
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
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
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
When you talk about people being haunted or wrestling demons, that is a rich metaphor. — Mike Flanagan Demons 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
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
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 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 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
Audiences are savvy. You can never go wrong assuming the best of them. — Mike Flanagan Assuming 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
In high school, I started studying movies and not reacting to them emotionally. — Mike Flanagan Education 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
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
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
