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“My brother and I grew up in a setting in the woods very much like 'The Witch' in southern New Hampshire, and then we would drive up north to Maine to settings like 'The Lighthouse' for vacations.”
“Guillermo del Toro is able to invent his worlds. I would find the pressure of having to invent crippling.”
“Certainly as a director you want to be working with people who are on the same page as you and that you can trust and get along with.”
“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 bow down to the altar of genre, because it allowed me to get 'The Witch' financed.”
“I mean, obviously it's exciting for me to see what 'The Revenant' is doing in the box office. That's very exciting.”
“It's pretty easy to learn about lighthouses because there's a lot of lighthouse enthusiasts. Really, there's lots of books about it, and it's fairly easy to find lighthouse keepers' journals and logbooks.”
“What's important to me about horror stories is to look at what's actually horrifying about humanity, instead of shining a flashlight on it and running away giggling.”
“Every actor demands different things. Every human being you come in contact with in your life, you have to deal with in slightly different ways.”
“I've talked about this a lot, but 'The Witch' took four years to finance because there were certain compromises I wouldn't make.”
“I always wanted to do film. And I still love theater.”
“I enjoy the act of research. I'm researching as a means to an end, but I literally just enjoy reading about how people lived in the past and understanding it better.”
“My office is just overflowing with books about witches and books about 17th-century animal husbandry and agricultural farm tools from the period.”
“Witches were really scary to me as a kid.”
“The Shining' is one of the few horror movies that I actually like and it actually scared me.”
“I actually like 'The Shining' more than I like Kubrick, I think. The tension he sustains through the whole film is so great.”
“African Queen' is pretty darn great.”
“If I'm going to make a genre film, it has to be personal and it has to be good.”
“When I was younger, I used to think it was kind of cool to abuse actors mentally, but I really disagree with that now.”
“I'm a big fan of silent cinema and I think that before I got into the canon of European arthouse cinema, the first interesting films I liked as a kid were German expressionist silent films.”