Robert Eggers Quotes

Robert Eggers

Robert Eggers

American Director

Born: Jul 7, 1983

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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

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Witches were really scary to me as a kid. Robert Eggers

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Charles Dickens is a lot of fun to read but it's not obscure, and that's just fine. Robert Eggers

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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

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If I'm going to make a genre film, it has to be personal and it has to be good. Robert Eggers

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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

What I love about research is when I'm having a bad day and I can't write, I'll just research some more, I'll learn some more and I'll have better command of the world of the film. Robert Eggers

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For me, rehearsal is only about blocking and pacing; it's not about performance. Robert Eggers

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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

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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

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I was totally shocked when Willem Dafoe's manager said that he wanted to have lunch with me. Robert Eggers

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I had these fashion history books that I really enjoyed looking at. I liked costumes and used to wear them to school until I got beat up for it. Robert Eggers

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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

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I wrote a lot of scripts that were dark and fairy tale-like, but too strange. Robert Eggers

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I bow down to the altar of genre, because it allowed me to get 'The Witch' financed. Robert Eggers

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I went to Salem as many Halloweens as I possibly could. Robert Eggers

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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

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As a kid, picturing people who grew up in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I walking around in hose and latched shoes in the woods behind my house was an interesting atmospheric thing 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

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Haxan' is really cool. There are a lot of things about it that are just great. Robert Eggers

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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

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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

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