Robert Eggers Quotes

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

Is there something we have forgotten? Some precious thing we have lost, wandering in strange lands?

Ten years ago, in 94, we thought maybe nobody would ever care about Styx again.

I don't know anyone who was never a geek, really, when they look at their own lives. I think that from the outside looking in, you think that you weren't necessarily a tragic geek, but yes, you did lean in that direction.

People were going to geometry class and I was swimming through vats of chili on 'Even Stevens.' It was like a dream!

I wish the word whimsical wasn't used now.

Food is so heavily connected to memory.

Once in a while, I try to sneak in something less known anyway.

We knew that we were kind of odd and creeps, and we wanted to do odd, creepy stuff for people who wanted to see that.

I'm not really that keen on mainstream; I'm not interested in doing the normal films. I do tend to go for the quirky, different scripts.

I'm always very excited by something that's a curveball or from left field.

I like what's obscure.

Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream.

My humor is a lot like Kristen Wiig's from 'Saturday Night Live' or 'Bridesmaids.' Quirky, off the beaten path.

I'm a little quirky, a little offbeat, and I'm certainly not a classic beauty.

I remember rather little of my life, and what I do remember is of small consequence.

People like hearing songs that sound like something they've heard before, that's reminiscent of their childhood and of what their parents listened to.

I like actors who are sort of different and eccentric - not what you expect.

The movies I do have to be different in some way. Nothing vanilla will do.

I feel like, the more you hang around, the more you're forgotten. It doesn't matter how good you are.

If you haven't done shows that are on everyone's radar, then you're something out of nowhere.

Even though I have lived in the States since I was 18, in my head I am still very British, and I do have this romance for towns in Middle America that nobody gets to see.

When I heard Flying Lotus, I was like, 'Wow, okay, everything can be off the grid.'

I'm a total nutcase; a lot of people don't get me.

My films are completely offbeat.