113 Quotes by Mike Flanagan

We're all storytellers in this business, and I personally love to sit back and watch someone tell a story. If it's done well, there's nothing like it. It's pure.

Well, I'm always drawn to the drama first. A story is really only interesting to me, if you can remove all of the genre moments and remove the supernatural element, and it still works. Then, I'm interested.

I'm always drawn toward family drama, and dysfunctional family stories. It speaks to me, in a really profound way, and I think there's so much to explore within it.

When I read Doctor Sleep, when it was first published, I was so taken with getting to spend time with Danny Torrance again.

With digital technology there's a huge spectrum of flexibility in what you can do to manipulate sound and image - which you can push into a really artificial realm if you aren't careful.

A movie studio has to answer to a marketing department, and to shareholders, to ensure the broadest audience possible for its product; it tends to err on the side of caution as a result.

Gerald's Game,' we could not have made it at a studio without substantive changes to the story.

I'm a major NASA nerd, so I've spent a lot of time learning about the space race and the Apollo missions.

Horror movies feel like comedies when you're making them because everybody laughs so much.