The 'Friday the 13th' Jason movies were way too scary for me. — Robert Eggers Friday Copy Share Image
Guillermo del Toro is able to invent his worlds. I would find the pressure of having to invent crippling. — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
To be honest with you, the forest resonates with me more, like instinctually, than the sea does. — Robert Eggers Forest Copy Share Image
The Shining' is one of the few horror movies that I actually like and it actually scared me. — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
I was totally shocked when Willem Dafoe's manager said that he wanted to have lunch with me. — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
I bow down to the altar of genre, because it allowed me to get 'The Witch' financed. — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
I grew up in New England, and the woods behind my house seemed haunted by New England's past. — Robert Eggers England Copy Share Image
Conan the Barbarian,' 'Star Wars,' 'Mary Poppins' and 'The Wizard of Oz' were my earliest VHS obsessions. — Robert Eggers Barbarian Copy Share Image
Without sounding like a New Age crystal worshipper, you can feel something there, in these old dilapidated colonial farms and hidden graveyards… — Robert Eggers Age Copy Share Image
This makes me sound like some new age, crystal-worshipping weirdo, but the woods behind my house really felt haunted by the past… — Robert Eggers Age Copy Share Image
I think where genre is limiting is that in the marketplace, you have to put things in a box to create expectations… — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
Certainly as a director you want to be working with people who are on the same page as you and that you… — Robert Eggers Director Copy Share Image
We grew up on Harold Pinter, Sam Shepard, Samuel Beckett. You're making something about men on the verge of a nervous breakdown,… — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
What's important to me about horror stories is to look at what's actually horrifying about humanity, instead of shining a flashlight on… — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of silent cinema and I think that before I got into the canon of European arthouse cinema, the… — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
What I love about research is when I'm having a bad day and I can't write, I'll just research some more, I'll… — Robert Eggers Bad day Copy Share Image
Cinemascope has become synonymous with 'epic,' and absolutely if you're shooting armies and certain kinds of vast landscapes, you do want that… — Robert Eggers Art Copy Share Image
The Lighthouse' couldn't have been made without this kind of freedom that is allowed to some filmmakers to be able to play… — Robert Eggers Freedom Copy Share Image
The more you try to turn away from darkness, the more darkness is right against your back. — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
The Lighthouse' isn't scary. A few people have said it is, but I don't think it is. — Robert Eggers Light Copy Share Image
Haxan' is really cool. There are a lot of things about it that are just great. — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
Ben Wheatley continues to be one of the most original voices in contemporary film. — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think I had my answers to the questions in 'The Witch,' and I had my answers to the questions in 'The… — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
As a kid, picturing people who grew up in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I walking around in hose and latched shoes… — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
I don't like twists. I don't get much out of them. If you know two cars are about to run into each… — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
I am not trying to be one of those sadistic, Kubrickian directors who is trying to make these tensions any worse or… — Robert Eggers Camera Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I used to think it was kind of cool to abuse actors mentally, but I really disagree with… — Robert Eggers Abuse Copy Share Image
Witches were part of my imaginary childhood playground, so I wanted to make an archetypal fairytale about the mythic idea of what… — Robert Eggers Childhood Copy Share Image
I enjoy the act of research. I'm researching as a means to an end, but I literally just enjoy reading about how… — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
When 'The Lighthouse,' bizarrely, became the film that people wanted to greenlight, it was really clear that those were the only two… — Robert Eggers Film Copy Share Image
I've talked about this a lot, but 'The Witch' took four years to finance because there were certain compromises I wouldn't make. — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
For some reason, no one wanted to give me money to make a movie written in early modern English that involved a… — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
The Diary of Samuel Sewall,' 'The Diary of John Winthrop,' these are easy for anyone to get their hands on. This was… — Robert Eggers Diary Copy Share Image
The intention behind 'The Witch' was to be very restrained. I think that story, while it sometimes annoys me, needed to take… — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
What's so interesting to me about history is - what's interesting to anyone - is how humans are the same. Their belief… — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
Parajanov's love for the folk culture is quite infectious. The way that he loves everything on screen, I relate. — Robert Eggers Culture Copy Share Image
It's pretty easy to learn about lighthouses because there's a lot of lighthouse enthusiasts. Really, there's lots of books about it, and… — Robert Eggers Books Copy Share Image
