A biography for Robert Eggershasn’t been written yet.
“I grew up doing a lot of theater - acting and making sets and costumes.”
“Nosferatu' has a very close, magical connection for me.”
“I'm trying to communicate with other people about humanity and stuff, man!”
“When we learned about Salem at school, the whole thing was confusing. Because the idea of the witch hunt is used as a symbol to describe people searching for something that's basically untrue, it cemented in my mind as a kid that witches weren't real.”
“Cinemascope has become synonymous with 'epic,' and absolutely if you're shooting armies and certain kinds of vast landscapes, you do want that panoramic canvas to work on. But if you look at art history there's not a whole lot of epic paintings that are in that aspect ratio.”
“Honestly, if I could shoot everything in 1:33, I would.”
“Being a wannabe auteur and my favorite filmmakers being part of the dead canon of European, Japanese art-house masters, I want to say that I don't want to care about genre and how it's limiting and all of that stuff.”
“The Witch' was very well planned, but 'The Lighthouse' was so much more so.”
“I don't want to act like the witch trials all over New England were warranted, but when you live in a culture that believes something is real, it feels very real.”
“Ben Wheatley continues to be one of the most original voices in contemporary film.”
“I don't get a lot of writer's block, because it's all based on research. I just start looking through my notes, and I can write garbage for days - I mean, some of it ends up being good.”
“I think the thing that is most influential about 'Haxan' is the casting of the witches as just old women and the strength of that.”
“Digging into the creation of the Puritan mind-set involved really trying to wrap my head around extreme Calvinism and what that's all about. I now understand predestination, and I had to read the Geneva Bible cover-to-cover and read the gospels quite a bit to get into that world.”
“American audiences, a lot of people couldn't understand a word of 'The Witch.'”
“What's so interesting to me about history is - what's interesting to anyone - is how humans are the same. Their belief systems were so different. They had different metaphysical truths than we do. And yet we're the same.”
“You can't train a goat. You can't. You can't. So I don't recommend making a movie with a goat in a major role to anyone.”
“The Lighthouse' isn't scary. A few people have said it is, but I don't think it is.”
“Basically, I had a hard time getting anyone to want to make any of the features that I had written.”
“So we didn't have any stars for 'The Witch.' A24 felt they needed something special for marketing, and they wanted to have the Satanic Temple endorse the film.”
“I saw a picture of Max Schreck as Count Orlok in a book in my elementary school and I lost my mind.”