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Robert Eggers
Profession : Director
Birth : July 7, 1983
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I am not trying to be one of those sadistic, Kubrickian directors who is trying to make these tensions any worse or exploit them, but... the camera sees what the camera sees.
Robert Eggers
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.
Robert Eggers
For some reason, no one wanted to give me money to make a movie written in early modern English that involved a lot of puritans praying - even if it did involve a witch.
Robert Eggers
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.
Robert Eggers
I'd love to do more theater.
Robert Eggers
I always wanted to do film. And I still love theater.
Robert Eggers
I'm trying to communicate with other people about humanity and stuff, man!
Robert Eggers
In earlier cultures with pagan belief systems, light and dark were celebrated equally, people were around death a lot. In contemporary Western culture, we don't have that, and horror is a place you can be immersed in it.
Robert Eggers
The 'Friday the 13th' Jason movies were way too scary for me.
Robert Eggers
I was interested in dark subject matter for sure, including folklore, fairy tales, mythology, archetypal stories of people going into the bowels of the forest.
Robert Eggers
I saw a picture of Max Schreck as Count Orlok in a book in my elementary school and I lost my mind.
Robert Eggers
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.
Robert Eggers
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.
Robert Eggers
As a second-time director you don't want to be working with someone who's a star that wants you to get down and kiss their feet.
Robert Eggers
Honestly, if I could shoot everything in 1:33, I would.
Robert Eggers
The figure of the witch was interesting to me, because of the primal, archetypical witch nightmares I had, even as an adult. But as a kid, it started with Margaret Hamilton in 'The Wizard Of Oz' as this inescapable horror.
Robert Eggers
I grew up in New England, and the woods behind my house seemed haunted by New England's past.
Robert Eggers
Willem Dafoe is a huge hero of mine.
Robert Eggers
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.
Robert Eggers
I bow down to the altar of genre, because it allowed me to get 'The Witch' financed.
Robert Eggers
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