Quotes About 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.

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

You've got to love a movie where a witch is your nanny.

For some reason, no one wanted to give me money to make a movie written in early modern English that involved a lot of puritans praying - even if it did involve a witch.

The intention behind 'The Witch' was to be very restrained. I think that story, while it sometimes annoys me, needed to take itself incredibly seriously.

I think the thing that is most influential about 'Haxan' is the casting of the witches as just old women and the strength of that.

I had these fashion history books that I really enjoyed looking at. I liked costumes and used to wear them to school until I got beat up for it.

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

The Diary of Samuel Sewall,' 'The Diary of John Winthrop,' these are easy for anyone to get their hands on. This was really common stuff and there's tons of cases of demon possession.

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

The Lighthouse' couldn't have been made without this kind of freedom that is allowed to some filmmakers to be able to play around with genre. Jennifer Kent's 'Nightingale' is more horrific than any horror movie - but also, I don't think you could make that movie without this kind of freedom.

Cinemascope has become synonymous with 'epic,' and absolutely if you're shooting armies and certain kinds of vast landscapes, you do want that panoramic canvas to work on. But if you look at art history there's not a whole lot of epic paintings that are in that aspect ratio.