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
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
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 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
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
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
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 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's nothing scarier than silence. A lot of horror movies lean on hits and score to try and create tension, which actually… — Mike Flanagan 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
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 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
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
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 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
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
At home, people are more likely to be distracted than in a theatrical environment. They're checking their phones, pausing to get a… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
