Robert Eggers Quotes

Robert Eggers

Profession : Director

Birth : July 7, 1983

There's a lot of cool stuff going on in independent film. But obviously, yeah - all the comic-book-franchise stuff is deeply boring. But these comic-book characters are the pagan pantheon of gods in today's contemporary culture. It's so important to so many people.

Robert Eggers

The Lighthouse' isn't scary. A few people have said it is, but I don't think it is.

Robert Eggers

The Lighthouse' couldn't have been made without this kind of freedom that is allowed to some filmmakers to be able to play around with genre. Jennifer Kent's 'Nightingale' is more horrific than any horror movie - but also, I don't think you could make that movie without this kind of freedom.

Robert Eggers

Murnau is neck to neck with Bergman as my favorite director. He's responsible for some of the best images in cinema of all time, from 'Nosferatu' to 'Faust' to 'Sunset.'

Robert Eggers

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.

Robert Eggers

Folk tales, fairy tales, religion, the occult - these are the things I'm most passionate about, even more than cinema. And I'm very passionate about cinema.

Robert Eggers

Certainly in Catholic countries, the peasantry have always found ways to integrate pagan things in a way that makes it a little bit easier just to be a human being.

Robert Eggers

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.

Robert Eggers

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.

Robert Eggers

The Shining' is one of the few horror movies that I actually like and it actually scared me.

Robert Eggers

I think I had my answers to the questions in 'The Witch,' and I had my answers to the questions in 'The Lighthouse;' I need those in order to write and direct them.

Robert Eggers

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.

Robert Eggers

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.

Robert Eggers

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.

Robert Eggers

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

Robert Eggers

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

Robert Eggers

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

Robert Eggers

The Witch' was intended to be a horror movie.

Robert Eggers

Star Wars to Jedi: The Making of a Saga' was huge for me. Seeing how all the creatures were made, looking inside Jabba The Hut, all of the maquettes lined up, building the world... 'This is a job?!' I was always avidly watching special features and behind the scenes stuff.

Robert Eggers

The Witch' was very well planned, but 'The Lighthouse' was so much more so.

Robert Eggers