Robert Eggers Quotes

The Reign of the Witches

I took a break from horror; I made three ghost movies back-to-back-to-back.

Witches were really scary to me as a kid.

I like the paranormal side a lot; that's my favorite kind of horror movie because it plays on your fear of the dark and makes you go home, and you can't sleep at night.

I've always had a fascination for everything surrounding things that are unexplainable. Not surprising that my first movie was a horror film, even though, of course, at the time I had no experience writing horror music.

When it draws near to witching time of night.

Magic frightens people almost as much as it intrigues them.

I really don't believe in magic.

You know, the best thing you can say about a horror film is, 'Don't see it.'

The number of witches had everywhere become enormous.

Don't set out to make a scary movie and then flinch every time you're supposed to scare somebody because you're afraid of being MPAA or you're afraid of your own demons or whatever.

The first horror film I remember seeing in the theatre was Halloween and from the first scene when the kid puts on the mask and it is his POV, I was hooked.

I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with the rest of cinema.

Witchcraft and priestcraft, were introduced into this world together, … and has gone on, hand in hand together

For my part, I have ever believed, and do so now, that there are witches.

I would love to make a horror picture!

I’m not superstitious. I’m a witch. Witches aren’t superstitious. We are what people are superstitious of.

Horror has been very good to me in my career. Doing horror films is for the fans and helps keep that part of my career alive.

Alien's a great one. That's a scary movie.

I think if a horror movie is really scary, you'll think about it for weeks, and there's something kind of fun about that - about our art, really.

As an audience, I must share that I was never a fan of a horror films.

It's a horror movie, but it's quite emotional too, and there's a lot of humor.

I don't love horror, I respect it as a genre.

I saw 'The Shining' in eighth grade. I watched it on VHS at a sleepover and was petrified, totally petrified. And I didn't really start to digest the movie properly and understand it from a filmmaking perspective until I got older. But it pretty much defined what it meant to be scared of a movie for me.

I have always been very into pagan hairstyles. If I were alive a long time ago, I would probably have been burned at the stake.