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Robert Eggers
Profession : Director
Birth : July 7, 1983
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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.
Robert Eggers
Honestly, I'm a snobby person.
Robert Eggers
Since the release of 'The Witch,' I'm actually much more warm towards bad horror movies than I was making 'The Witch.'
Robert Eggers
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.
Robert Eggers
If you could custom build new cinemas for every release of every movie, I think filmmakers would work in a lot of different aspect ratios.
Robert Eggers
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.
Robert Eggers
Without sounding like a New Age crystal worshipper, you can feel something there, in these old dilapidated colonial farms and hidden graveyards in the middle of a pine forest. I certainly did as a kid.
Robert Eggers
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.
Robert Eggers
When I was younger, I used to think it was kind of cool to abuse actors mentally, but I really disagree with that now.
Robert Eggers
If I'm going to make a genre film, it has to be personal and it has to be good.
Robert Eggers
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.
Robert Eggers
Haxan' is really cool. There are a lot of things about it that are just great.
Robert Eggers
I think where genre is limiting is that in the marketplace, you have to put things in a box to create expectations to make a profit, and that's where you run into trouble.
Robert Eggers
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.
Robert Eggers
People return to the same things. Charles Dickens wrote the same story a million times - and 'A Christmas Carol.'
Robert Eggers
American audiences, a lot of people couldn't understand a word of 'The Witch.'
Robert Eggers
If you're a part of this urban intelligentsia, you're not around animals all the time the way people were in the past. So animals become a part of the folklore.
Robert Eggers
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.
Robert Eggers
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.
Robert Eggers
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