Robert Eggers Quotes

I certainly didn't want to make another movie that's 'just another Dracula film.'

I saw a picture of Max Schreck as Count Orlok in a book in my elementary school and I lost my mind.

Dracula can sustain many interpretations and exists in many phantasmal forms... and Johnny Alucard is my attempt to explore the multiplicity of Draculas unloosed on the world in the long wake of Stoker's novel.

There's such a fan base for 'Dark Shadows'. I remember watching the show as a kid, but I wasn't an ardent fan. I didn't run home from school to watch it.

Actually I liked that 'Let the Right One In,' that Swedish vampire movie.

I wanted to make an adult vampire film, not something for children.

With its missed lines and falling tombstones, 'Dark Shadows' was sometimes inadvertently funny, but what made the show work was the fact that the actors and the writers took it all very seriously.

The vampire story is something that has existed since 'Nosferatu,' and I don't think it's gonna go away.

Kurosawa is my hero, and I've taught courses on his films, and I love what he does, and 'Rashomon' is, I think, his second greatest film after 'Ikiru.'

I had a wonderful time making 'Dark Shadows.'

I love 'Jaws,' and I think Robert Shaw's performance in 'Jaws' is one of the best screen performances of all time. I am a massive Robert Shaw fan. I think he's a brilliant, brilliant talent and we lost him way before his time.

I watch 'Singin' in the Rain' at least once a year with my grandchildren, and they just adore it.

Oh, 'Wild Things.' I haven't seen it since it came out! But you know, it was a fun romp. We had a really good time.

I remember going to the cinema to watch 'Blade Runner' when I was 14 or 15. It was a huge flop when it came out. The cinema was almost empty. I was blown away by it.

When I was younger, I used to watch all the black-and-white 'Dracula's and 'Frankenstein's.

The tattoo on my wrist has the letters 'ES,' which stands for 'elephant shoe.' It's something I used to say when I was younger instead of 'I love you' and it reminds me to remain childlike at times and to not take myself too seriously.

I watch television all the time, mostly PBS and old movies like 'The Quiet Man,' my favorite Wayne movie. It's marvelous. I just loved the man and still do.

'Hereditary' is unabashedly a horror film. In a lot of ways, it's in dialogue with other horror films. But I do know that it was important for me that the film functioned first as a family drama. I know that I'm never affected by anything if I'm not invested in the people to whom the genre things are happening.

I was like, 'I've got to watch some more of these.' And yeah, I watched 'E.T.,' which I absolutely love. I'm not a big crier, but that just always makes me cry.

I like horror movies that have a degree of coziness to them.

Miami will always be special to me.

It's kind of a dream to play a vampire in a movie.

'Hellraiser' was the first horror film I ever saw, so it will always be a favorite.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit' is one of my favorite movies of all time, and in fact it is maybe the first movie that I really loved in an adult way.

Chennai is a lucky charm for me and I hold the city very close to my heart.