We’re all storytellers in this business, and I personally love to sit back and watch someone tell a story. If it’s done well, there’s nothing like it. It’s pure. Mike Flanagan Read Quote
Well, I’m always drawn to the drama first. A story is really only interesting to me, if you can remove all of the genre moments and remove the supernatural element, and it still works. Then, I’m interested. Mike Flanagan Read Quote
I did not growing up watching a lot of horror. I wasn’t allowed a lot of it and I was a real chicken. Mike Flanagan Read Quote
I always liked the challenge of that, how to take an inanimate object and build something around it that’s scary. Mike Flanagan Read Quote
Well, as a kid I did all the Bloody Mary games and using a mirror to scare yourself. Mike Flanagan Read Quote
What’s so exciting and unstoppable about the horror genre is that I view it all as metaphorical exploration. It’s the safe place that we, as a culture, can deal with things that upset and frighten us – the darker side of our nature. Mike Flanagan Read Quote
I associate a family as the safest place in the world. So when it comes to things that scare me, introducing instability and tension into where you’re supposed to be the safest really strikes a chord with me. Mike Flanagan Read Quote
I grew up in a very healthy nuclear family, and I was fortunate enough to not have to deal with loss and grief as a child. Mike Flanagan Read Quote
At home, people are more likely to be distracted than in a theatrical environment. They’re checking their phones, pausing to get a snack, or sometimes jumping from show to show. Mike Flanagan Read Quote
