100 Quotes by Robert Eggers

My office is just overflowing with books about witches and books about 17th-century animal husbandry and agricultural farm tools from the period.

Basically, I had a hard time getting anyone to want to make any of the features that I had written.

I remember seeing re-releases of 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' and 'Bambi' in the theater very young. They had huge impacts on me, particularly the dark aspects.

Conan the Barbarian,' 'Star Wars,' 'Mary Poppins' and 'The Wizard of Oz' were my earliest VHS obsessions.

I still know the lyrics to pretty much any 'Mary Poppins' song.

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

I was totally shocked when Willem Dafoe's manager said that he wanted to have lunch with 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.

This makes me sound like some new age, crystal-worshipping weirdo, but the woods behind my house really felt haunted by the past when I was a kid.