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• ‟ The Shining' is one of the few horror movies that I actually like and it actually scared me.

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• ‟ What's important to me about horror stories is to look at what's actually horrifying about humanity, instead of shining a flashlight on it and running away giggling.

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• ‟ To be honest with you, the forest resonates with me more, like instinctually, than the sea does.

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• ‟ The Wicked Witch of the West really scared me as a child.

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• ‟ After I made my first short film that wasn't terrible, people were interested in potentially developing a feature with me. Every time I read a script, it was a bizarre, too-dark, genre-less thing that no one wanted to make.

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• ‟ Witches were part of my imaginary childhood playground, so I wanted to make an archetypal fairytale about the mythic idea of what New England was to me as a kid.

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• ‟ Witches were really scary to me as a kid.

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• ‟ I mean, obviously it's exciting for me to see what 'The Revenant' is doing in the box office. That's very exciting.

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• ‟ I remember seeing re-releases of 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' and 'Bambi' in the theater very young. They had huge impacts on me, particularly the dark aspects.

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• ‟ Star Wars to Jedi: The Making of a Saga' was huge for me. Seeing how all the creatures were made, looking inside Jabba The Hut, all of the maquettes lined up, building the world... 'This is a job?!' I was always avidly watching special features and behind the scenes stuff.

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• ‟ I was totally shocked when Willem Dafoe's manager said that he wanted to have lunch with me.

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• ‟ As a kid, picturing people who grew up in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I walking around in hose and latched shoes in the woods behind my house was an interesting atmospheric thing for me.

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• ‟ For me, rehearsal is only about blocking and pacing; it's not about performance.

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