When horror is about something - capital-A about - that's when it's really landing. — Mike Flanagan 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
Depending on how 'Doctor Sleep' does, we'll see what movie opportunities there will be. — Mike Flanagan Doctor 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
I'm a firm believer that what you don't see is always scarier than what you do. — Mike Flanagan 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
Gerald's Game,' we could not have made it at a studio without substantive changes to the story. — Mike Flanagan Copy Share Image
In high school, I started studying movies and not reacting to them emotionally. — Mike Flanagan Education 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 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 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
I like to say that Hollywood is one of the most democratic entities in the world and the reason why is every… — Mike Flanagan 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
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 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
Audiences are savvy. You can never go wrong assuming the best of them. — Mike Flanagan 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 am always fascinated by the mental struggles that people and characters have. — Mike Flanagan Adversity 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 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
I always liked the challenge of that, how to take an inanimate object and build something around it that's scary. — Mike Flanagan Copy Share Image
