I always wanted to do film. And I still love theater.

I'd love to do more theater.

For some reason, no one wanted to give me money to make a movie written in early modern English that involved a lot of puritans praying - even if it did involve a witch.

Look, some days, you have to film a sequence in which the rain is pounding down on someone and you're just turning the camera on what's happening. And other days, you occasionally have to spray Robert Pattinson in the face with a firehose.

I've talked about this a lot, but 'The Witch' took four years to finance because there were certain compromises I wouldn't make.

The Witch' was very well planned, but 'The Lighthouse' was so much more so.

I certainly grew up in coastal New Hampshire, but I prefer to play in the woods than go to Hampton Beach or whatever.

For better or for worse, my brother and I both have some Jungian leanings, so we're tempted to think that these bits and bobs of the past are knocking around in everyone's heads somehow to some degree, and they just need to be jiggled into the front of their head in the mind again.

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

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.

The Diary of Samuel Sewall,' 'The Diary of John Winthrop,' these are easy for anyone to get their hands on. This was really common stuff and there's tons of cases of demon possession.

In a world where people believe in something, then it does exist.

Basically, I had a hard time getting anyone to want to make any of the features that I had written.

My office is just overflowing with books about witches and books about 17th-century animal husbandry and agricultural farm tools from the period.

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

There's a lot of cool stuff going on in independent film. But obviously, yeah - all the comic-book-franchise stuff is deeply boring. But these comic-book characters are the pagan pantheon of gods in today's contemporary culture. It's so important to so many people.

Witches were really scary to me as a kid.

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.

I actually like 'The Shining' more than I like Kubrick, I think. The tension he sustains through the whole film is so great.

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

Technology will need to make many more huge leaps before one can ever view films with the level of picture and sound quality many film lovers demand without having to slide a disc into a player, especially with the technical requirements of today's 3D movies.

Sometimes I find I'm wearing a divided, split brain in terms of drama and humor.

I was always amazed about how much I could finally squeeze into a thirty second commercial.

The Gulf of Mexico, they believe, is a huge asteroid. That was an impact zone, you know that? Yeah, for that big a thing to actually hit our globe, it would have had to adjusted the spin, the axis.