Robert Eggers Quotes

I'm not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn it into a living. When I was making "Star Wars," I wasn't restrained by any kind of science. I simply said, "I'm going to create a world that's fun and interesting, makes sense, and seems to have a reality to it."

Rule of art: Cant kills creativity!

I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.

Whenever I finish a movie, I usually go through a period where I think I'll never have another idea. And then, somehow, you get another idea.

I think you always win in storytelling when you let the best creative ideas guide you.

Maybe some people, when they sit down to write their great novel or make their great record or paint their great painting, they have it all planned out in their head. But for me, it's never worked that way.

That's the thing about creating. When you create, you create your own thing, whatever that is. It's always going to seep through in whatever you do.

For me, the source material can come from anywhere. It can be a poem, it can be a dream, it can be a movie, as long as the end part of it is interesting - that's what it's about for me.

Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow… The kick of creation is the act of creating, not anything that happens afterward

Every single thing you see on-screen came out of somebody's creativity. It doesn't exist. Nature didn't deliver it to us. Everything had to be dreamed.

I don't fight creativity. I don't fight against not being creative. If I'm not being creative, I'm not forcing it.

To make independent films, you can't think about them too much, ponder on them too much, get overwhelmed by the enormity of it.

God has given us an imagination, and our imagination is really the principle tool from which all creativity and artistry comes from.

The nice thing about animation is that you can realise your inventions without understanding all the hard theory.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

It's hard to regulate the speed at which you can achieve something creative and emotional.

I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.

As creators, we feel constant demand for innovation from the world. This puts immense pressure on the creative process and oftentimes can have a dampening effect.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

Trying to force creativity is never good.

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

I don't have a problem with green screen at all. I think children invented CGI. We invent worlds. A stick can become a sword. Or a bowl of stones can become a bowl of tomatoes. That's what children do, and that's what CGI enables us to do.

I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them.

There's no possibility that foresight work will ruin my creativity. It goes to a different area than the creative wellspring of SF.