100 Quotes by Robert Eggers

I saw a picture of Max Schreck as Count Orlok in a book in my elementary school and I lost my mind.

Charles Dickens is a lot of fun to read but it's not obscure, and that's just fine.

Nosferatu' has a very close, magical connection for me.

We grew up on Harold Pinter, Sam Shepard, Samuel Beckett. You're making something about men on the verge of a nervous breakdown, you're going to look to those guys.

The Witch' was intended to be a horror movie.

When 'The Lighthouse,' bizarrely, became the film that people wanted to greenlight, it was really clear that those were the only two people to play the roles. And I knew that they would want to do it.

What I love about research is when I'm having a bad day and I can't write, I'll just research some more, I'll learn some more and I'll have better command of the world of the film.

American audiences, a lot of people couldn't understand a word of 'The 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.