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 Copy Share Image
Building and sustaining tension is always my priority, so home entertainment provides challenges to that. — Mike Flanagan 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
Horror movies feel like comedies when you're making them because everybody laughs so much. — Mike Flanagan Comedies Copy Share Image
Well, as a kid I did all the Bloody Mary games and using a mirror to scare yourself. — Mike Flanagan Copy Share Image
I'm a firm believer that what you don't see is always scarier than what you do. — Mike Flanagan Copy Share Image
With 'Gerald's Game' in particular, we didn't have enough money or time and it was really hard. — 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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Depending on how 'Doctor Sleep' does, we'll see what movie opportunities there will be. — Mike Flanagan Doctor 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 Copy Share Image
Audiences are savvy. You can never go wrong assuming the best of them. — Mike Flanagan 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 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
Gerald's Game,' we could not have made it at a studio without substantive changes to the story. — 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
