Robert Eggers Quotes

There are some directors I hear about in nighttime or some I used to work with who walk around like gods.

As an actor, you have to give up all control to the director. He's the boss, and has all the power. I'm a control freak, so that's really hard for me.

It's all about who's where on the food chain. When I'm the story editor, I expect my writers to follow my vision. When I'm working for another editor, I'm obliged to follow their vision.

If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates', then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.

Even the frankest and bravest of subordinates do not talk with their boss the same way they talk with colleagues.

When you enter a room, you have to kiss his ring. I don't mind, but he has it in his back pocket.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller.

And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee... It's the slave quality that I find very alluring.

The people at the top of the league think they need to rein me in so I don't become another Michael Jordan, somebody they aren't able to mold and shape and make their puppet.

Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?

The thing about Republicans is that they don't care so much about respect, but they love fear, at least in others.

The director took my face in his hands and asked me to show him my teeth, as with a horse. This happened on a Wednesday, and by the following Monday I was shooting.

I mean he's a very famous director... they're not going to put their... and he's very tough, he doesn't like interference at all, so he kept them at bay.

I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.

Everybody in Washington works for me.

Nobody is strong-minded around a President…

I always remember I'm the monkey and he's the organ-grinder.

He was in charge of everything and I was to be wherever he wasn’t.

Every organism, every human being, must conquer or serve.

It is better to be the slave of a master than to be a slave of a slave.

I think any director is intimidating.

I don't take anything for granted from any director. I am just a slave of my director.

When I was captain, John Wright was making all the decisions and I followed like an obedient student.

It was okay but then I found myself in that position of being merely a screenwriter. And you are merely the screenwriter, and there's no way around it. You don't have the same clout as the director.