38 Mike Flanagan Quotes for You to Enjoy

Mike Flanagan

American Director

Born: May 20, 1978

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Related authors: David Lynch George Lucas Martin Scorsese Spike Lee Steven Spielberg Tim Burton Woody Allen

I'm a firm believer that what you don't see is always scarier than what you do. Mike Flanagan

You See Firm Firm Believer Always Than Believer

At home, people are more likely to be distracted than in a theatrical environment. They're checking their phones, pausing to get a snack, or sometimes jumping from show to show. Mike Flanagan

Home Phones People Sometimes Distracted More Environment Checking Likely Snack Jumping Than Get Theatrical Pausing Show

Well when I hear 'slasher' I think about the 80s. Mike Flanagan

Think About Well Hear Slasher

What you don't want is for violence and gore to become more important than character and structure. A lot of slasher movies from the eighties were only focused on violence and gore, which robs the human beings in the story of any empathetic reaction from the audience, and instead makes them cheer for the gore. Mike Flanagan

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I'm a Stephen King fanatic. Mike Flanagan

King Stephen King Fanatic

With 'Gerald's Game' in particular, we didn't have enough money or time and it was really hard. Mike Flanagan

Time Game Money Enough Enough Money Particular Really Hard

I have an allergy to sequels and remakes in general. Mike Flanagan

General Allergy Sequels

What's so exciting and unstoppable about the horror genre is that I view it all as metaphorical exploration. It's the safe place that we, as a culture, can deal with things that upset and frighten us - the darker side of our nature. Mike Flanagan

Well, as a kid I did all the Bloody Mary games and using a mirror to scare yourself. Mike Flanagan

Yourself Mirror Kid Scare Mary Well Bloody Did Games Using

I'm a natural born skeptic. Mike Flanagan

Natural Born Skeptic

I saw 'The Shining' in eighth grade. I watched it on VHS at a sleepover and was petrified, totally petrified. And I didn't really start to digest the movie properly and understand it from a filmmaking perspective until I got older. But it pretty much defined what it meant to be scared of a movie for me. Mike Flanagan

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Audiences are embracing more and more unique material. I think they can sense the cynicism when people are just cranking something out to try to ride off the success of something else. I think they can feel it. Mike Flanagan

Well, I'm always drawn to the drama first. A story is really only interesting to me, if you can remove all of the genre moments and remove the supernatural element, and it still works. Then, I'm interested. Mike Flanagan

Gerald's Game,' we could not have made it at a studio without substantive changes to the story. Mike Flanagan

Game Made Changes Could Studio Without Substantive Story

I think it was in sixth grade, though, when I picked up my first Stephen King book, which was 'It,' that knocked me over and terrified me for years. Then I never went back. I had to own every Stephen King book and read them at least three times. They would terrify me completely, but I couldn't stop. That became my preferred source of fiction. Mike Flanagan

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In high school, I started studying movies and not reacting to them emotionally. Mike Flanagan

School High High School Emotionally Studying Reacting Movies Them Started

When I got to high school, they had a morning TV show you could become a part of, and I started making short films for that, most little satirical, laugh-y films about the dean of students being chased by a dinosaur or something like that. And I really just enjoyed it. Mike Flanagan

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I tend to over-prepare my shot lists. Mike Flanagan

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