“I think I had my answers to the questions in 'The Witch,' and I had my...” — Robert Eggers Quote

I think I had my answers to the questions in 'The Witch,' and I had my answers to the questions in 'The Lighthouse;' I need those in order to write and direct them.

I like finding things that are on the fringes and sort of half-forgotten, and to remind us of those things.

Tons of folktales have to do with hares and witches. Basically, witches all over Europe turn into hares and are able to do malevolent things in the form of a hare. It goes back to the great god Pan. Pan is, if we're going to do archetypal projections, related to the Christian Satan, but as a child, Pan was wrapped in a hare's hide.

Charles Dickens is a lot of fun to read but it's not obscure, and that's just fine.

Though there might not be any easy answers to the problem of poverty, its most compelling scribes do not resign themselves to representation solely for the sake of those age-old verities of truth and beauty.

I don't have all answers, but as far as viewing my body... I'm in a place where I can look at my stretch marks and say, 'Oh, hey, stretch marks!' and I'm over it.

I loved the idea of understanding people, places, concepts, concerns and large international questions. And being the one to go out and get the answers.

We don't think there are simple answers about that why someone is the way they are.