Robert Eggers

The Witch' was very well planned, but 'The Lighthouse' was so much more so.

— Robert Eggers

The more you try to turn away from darkness, the more darkness is right against your back.

— Robert Eggers

If I'm going to make a genre film, it has to be personal and it has to be good.

— Robert Eggers

African Queen' is pretty darn great.

— Robert Eggers

The Shining' is one of the few horror movies that I actually like and it actually scared me.

— Robert Eggers

Every actor demands different things. Every human being you come in contact with in your life, you have to deal with in…

— Robert Eggers

There's a lot of cool stuff going on in independent film. But obviously, yeah - all the comic-book-franchise stuff is deeply boring.…

— Robert Eggers

What's so interesting to me about history is - what's interesting to anyone - is how humans are the same. Their belief…

— Robert Eggers

I always wanted to do film. And I still love theater.

— Robert Eggers

For me, rehearsal is only about blocking and pacing; it's not about performance.

— Robert Eggers

I bow down to the altar of genre, because it allowed me to get 'The Witch' financed.

— Robert Eggers

I had these fashion history books that I really enjoyed looking at. I liked costumes and used to wear them to school…

— Robert Eggers

Guillermo del Toro is able to invent his worlds. I would find the pressure of having to invent crippling.

— Robert Eggers

I wrote a lot of scripts that were dark and fairy tale-like, but too strange.

— Robert Eggers

Nosferatu' has a very close, magical connection for me.

— Robert Eggers

Bergman's my favorite filmmaker, if I had to choose.

— Robert Eggers

I would definitely agree that 'The Witch' doesn't leave much of anything to the imagination. There are some ambiguities about 'The Witch,'…

— Robert Eggers

I mean, obviously it's exciting for me to see what 'The Revenant' is doing in the box office. That's very exciting.

— Robert Eggers

I was interested in dark subject matter for sure, including folklore, fairy tales, mythology, archetypal stories of people going into the bowels…

— Robert Eggers

Certainly as a director you want to be working with people who are on the same page as you and that you…

— Robert Eggers

Conan the Barbarian,' 'Star Wars,' 'Mary Poppins' and 'The Wizard of Oz' were my earliest VHS obsessions.

— Robert Eggers

I definitely hope to create, to tell some stories on larger canvases, which does mean making something that is narratively more broad.…

— Robert Eggers

My brother and I grew up in a setting in the woods very much like 'The Witch' in southern New Hampshire, and…

— Robert Eggers

When 'The Lighthouse,' bizarrely, became the film that people wanted to greenlight, it was really clear that those were the only two…

— Robert Eggers

I remember seeing re-releases of 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' and 'Bambi' in the theater very young. They had huge impacts…

— Robert Eggers