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 Read Quote
When I got to high school, they had a morning TV show you could become a part of, and I started making short films for that, most little satirical, laugh-y films about the dean of students being chased by a dinosaur or something like that. And I really just enjoyed it. Mike Flanagan Read Quote
I am always fascinated by the mental struggles that people and characters have. Mike Flanagan Read Quote
Gerald’s Game’ had such an impact on me when I read the book in college that I think I’ve actually, consciously or unconsciously, been incorporating elements of that story into my work ever since. Mike Flanagan Read Quote
I never shoot my movies like I’m shooting ‘a horror movie,’ I shoot them like dramas. Dramas and then something horrible happens. Mike Flanagan Read Quote
I’m a big believer in building a crew. Movies are the most collaborative art form at the tend of the world, and it takes hundreds of people to make one. At the end of the day, I get the lion’s share of praise or blame but everybody on the ground knows that it was all of us. Mike Flanagan Read Quote
People will bemoan the quality of horror but then they’ll go out and support horror films that are lacking qualities that they say they want. Mike Flanagan Read Quote
In high school, I started studying movies and not reacting to them emotionally. Mike Flanagan Read Quote
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. Mike Flanagan Read Quote
