Best quotes by Mike Flanagan on Movies

Checkout quotes by Mike Flanagan on Movies

• ‟ I always tend to tilt dark on an ending, because I feel like, especially with horror movies, those are the endings that don't evaporate. Those are the ones that stick with you.

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• ‟ Horror is fascinating because it's so seasonal and it's like you've got these periods where slasher movies are in and it's like everyone loves them. Next thing you know zombies are in. Then vampires are acceptable.

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• ‟ What you don't want is for violence and gore to become more important than character and structure. A lot of slasher movies from the eighties were only focused on violence and gore, which robs the human beings in the story of any empathetic reaction from the audience, and instead makes them cheer for the gore.

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• ‟ Whenever I would see horror movies I would be traumatized and I'd have to watch them behind my hands or behind the couch sometimes. So I grew up first with authors like John Bellairs and R.L. Stine for kind of the young adult horror. But I found Stephen King in the sixth grade and that was it. I became a rabid fan.

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• ‟ Horror movies feel like comedies when you're making them because everybody laughs so much.

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• ‟ One of the things about horror movies that I've noticed with the children I've worked with is that they have a great time.

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• ‟ In high school, I started studying movies and not reacting to them emotionally.

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• ‟ I started off making backyard movies. I think it began in fifth grade - I'd get the friends together and we'd make little home movies. I always wanted to make movies but I didn't know how. It was always something really fun to do.

  - Mike Flanagan