Robert Eggers Quotes

Shooting films in Britain is always difficult, because we've never got enough money to make them.

It's hard to make a film in Britain. It's hard to raise money. The best stuff that is shot on film in Britain is usually shot on film for television.

I was shocked. They were going to give me money to make this really odd show? Well, I still had little thought of it going to series, but I thought it was great that my next short film was going to be paid for.

It's never easy getting an independent film made and distributed - even when it's easy.

Usually, I make such small-budget films that I can't afford to buy weather.

You still get the movies made. A filmmaker can always scrape up money to do a movie. The passion drives it. And you'll get the money. Money's the easiest thing. But the hardest thing is finding a way for people to see your movie.

I had to trick people into giving me money for my first film. Making a romantic comedy is easier and more expected from a woman than it is to make a drama about a Japanese warrior.

I do not need a producer. I need only a good production manager. I need only a man who will give me money.

Making movies seemed so impossible as far as getting my ideas funded.

I would love to do a period film and work with Shyam Benegal.

'Straight Outta Compton' is my first biopic, my first period piece, and I got a chance to kind of get out there like some of my idols, you know, like Scorsese, Spielberg, Spike Lee, the guys who came before me. You know, I'm feeling good about it.

No screenplay is possible, unless you get some attachment from somebody who's going to get it made.

I have aspirations of making a big, historical epic. I don't know if I'll ever get the money to do it.

It was really fun to play a period piece because I've never done that before and it's completely different.

Vidhu Vinod Chopra, who has produced my earlier films, is still a part of 'PK' and is presenting it. He is not a hands-on producer - he used to put a certain amount in the bank and give me the cheque book.

I had originally written 'Pariah' as a feature, and we shot the first act as a short film, and then we used the short as a marketing tool to fundraise for the feature.

It's hard to get movies made.

I remember watching Cate Blanchett in 'Elizabeth' and feeling like for the first time - even though that time period wasn't happening now - that I believed that role.

The frustration of a movie is that you are creating a new business every time you go off to make one, and in a funny way, that's what's exciting.

I get a lot of advice from my dad about how I should be as a human being, but as an actor, I think he'll give me advice once I'm doing a film for him.

That's the beauty of filmmaking: it's extremely humbling because you do it all over again all the time.

I was watching 'Sabrina the Teenage Witch' - the episode where Sabrina and her friend make a vampire movie for college. I wanted to see if it would be fun to make a horror movie.

I'm still fighting. I don't know how much longer, but I'm still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film.

Period films to me are very often alienating to the audience. There's very often a formality. A staunchy quality to them that comes from the misenscene. It also comes from the performances of the actors, because they're acting Victorian which really means that they're just acting the way they've seen previous actors act Victorian.

The only reason I'm acting in films I direct is to get the money to make them, quite frankly, it's not what I'm interested in doing.