Conan the Barbarian,' 'Star Wars,' 'Mary Poppins' and 'The Wizard of Oz' were my earliest VHS obsessions. — Robert Eggers Barbarian 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 was totally shocked when Willem Dafoe's manager said that he wanted to have lunch with me. — 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
Charles Dickens is a lot of fun to read but it's not obscure, and that's just fine. — Robert Eggers Books Copy Share Image
I like finding things that are on the fringes and sort of half-forgotten, and to remind us of those things. — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
For me, rehearsal is only about blocking and pacing; it's not about performance. — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
American audiences, a lot of people couldn't understand a word of 'The Witch.' — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
If you could custom build new cinemas for every release of every movie, I think filmmakers would work in a lot of… — Robert Eggers Cinema Copy Share Image
The figure of the witch was interesting to me, because of the primal, archetypical witch nightmares I had, even as an adult.… — Robert Eggers 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
I was interested in dark subject matter for sure, including folklore, fairy tales, mythology, archetypal stories of people going into the bowels… — Robert Eggers Dark Copy Share Image
I don't get a lot of writer's block, because it's all based on research. I just start looking through my notes, and… — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
You can't train a goat. You can't. You can't. So I don't recommend making a movie with a goat in a major… — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
I definitely hope to create, to tell some stories on larger canvases, which does mean making something that is narratively more broad.… — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
If you're a part of this urban intelligentsia, you're not around animals all the time the way people were in the past.… — Robert Eggers Animal Copy Share Image
When we learned about Salem at school, the whole thing was confusing. Because the idea of the witch hunt is used as… — Robert Eggers Mind Copy Share Image
Three years into getting 'The Witch' financed, I was hanging out with my brother and he was like, 'I'm working on this… — Robert Eggers Brother Copy Share Image
I'm trying to communicate with other people about humanity and stuff, man! — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
I grew up doing a lot of theater - acting and making sets and costumes. — Robert Eggers Acting Copy Share Image
If I'm going to make a genre film, it has to be personal and it has to be good. — Robert Eggers Cinema Copy Share Image
The Witch' was very well planned, but 'The Lighthouse' was so much more so. — Robert Eggers Lighthouse Copy Share Image
Basically, I had a hard time getting anyone to want to make any of the features that I had written. — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
Since the release of 'The Witch,' I'm actually much more warm towards bad horror movies than I was making 'The Witch.' — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
Murnau is neck to neck with Bergman as my favorite director. He's responsible for some of the best images in cinema of… — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
I had these fashion history books that I really enjoyed looking at. I liked costumes and used to wear them to school… — Robert Eggers Books Copy Share Image
My office is just overflowing with books about witches and books about 17th-century animal husbandry and agricultural farm tools from the period. — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
As a second-time director you don't want to be working with someone who's a star that wants you to get down and… — Robert Eggers Cinema 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
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 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
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
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
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 Copy Share Image
Certainly in Catholic countries, the peasantry have always found ways to integrate pagan things in a way that makes it a little… — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
So we didn't have any stars for 'The Witch.' A24 felt they needed something special for marketing, and they wanted to have… — Robert Eggers Film Copy Share Image
