Early Quote by Robert Eggers

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

— Robert Eggers

American audiences, a lot of people couldn't understand a word of 'The Witch.'

— Robert Eggers

The Witch' was intended to be a horror movie.

— Robert Eggers

Playing a convincing witch takes a bit of research. I've looked up the old Salem business and reread a lot of fairy tales and…

— Agnes Moorehead

The plain truth is that the period I study is the 16th century, and they were absolutely obsessed with witches and spiritual beings.

— Deborah Harkness

Those old hypocrites. They talk about killing witches but the Good Book’s full of magic. Turning the Nile to blood and parting the Red…

— Clive Barker

Three years into getting 'The Witch' financed, I was hanging out with my brother and he was like, 'I'm working on this script. It's…

— Robert Eggers

I don't want to act like the witch trials all over New England were warranted, but when you live in a culture that believes…

— Robert Eggers

There must have been good grounds for belief in witchcraft; otherwise Parliament would not have legislated against it.

— Edward Coke

There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that…

— Vera Farmiga

John Wesley said that if you give up the witchcraft, you must give up the Bible. He is right. The choice is easy for…

— Rupert Hughes

So we didn't have any stars for 'The Witch.' A24 felt they needed something special for marketing, and they wanted to have the Satanic…

— Robert Eggers