Culture Quote by Robert Eggers

I feel like New England witches are one thing that I, on paper, should like, but in practice, I don't.

— Julio Torres

Basically, I was always disappointed that the witches weren't real when we learned about the Salem witch trials.

— Robert Eggers

Without really analyzing it, I grew up in Massachusetts, so the Salem witch trials were always something that I was around. The average kindergartner…

— Rob Zombie

You ever want to see real witchcraft, you watch people protecting their comfort, their beliefs.

— Peter S. Beagle

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

Sure, there are moments that you can escape, and you can sit back and just enjoy it, but one of the most fun things…

— Lauren Schmidt Hissrich

“People tend to focus on the "magic" more than the "realism." But, like all fiction, fantasy arrives at truth via the road of untruth.”

— Salman Rushdie

Witches were part of my imaginary childhood playground, so I wanted to make an archetypal fairytale about the mythic idea of what New England…

— Robert Eggers

It is far more probable that our senses should deceive us, than that an old woman should be carried up a chimney on a…

— Michel de Montaigne

For some reason, no one wanted to give me money to make a movie written in early modern English that involved a lot of…

— Robert Eggers

I feel like there's a witch hunt by some film sites and people that immediately disregard something if it shows any sort of influence.

— Max Winkler

When we learned about Salem at school, the whole thing was confusing. Because the idea of the witch hunt is used as a symbol…

— Robert Eggers