100 Quotes by Robert Eggers

I'd love to do more theater.

I always wanted to do film. And I still love theater.

People return to the same things. Charles Dickens wrote the same story a million times - and 'A Christmas Carol.'

I'm trying to communicate with other people about humanity and stuff, man!

The more you try to turn away from darkness, the more darkness is right against your back.

The 'Friday the 13th' Jason movies were way too scary for me.

Tons of folktales have to do with hares and witches. Basically, witches all over Europe turn into hares and are able to do malevolent things in the form of a hare. It goes back to the great god Pan. Pan is, if we're going to do archetypal projections, related to the Christian Satan, but as a child, Pan was wrapped in a hare's hide.

Guillermo del Toro is able to invent his worlds. I would find the pressure of having to invent crippling.

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 a ghost story in a lighthouse.' I thought, 'Damn, that's a really good idea, I wish I'd had it.'