Mike Flanagan Quotes

When I was young, with my brothers, we'd make movies all the time, and that was never scripted.

I started making 8mm films when I was 13, so I've been directing for 21 years.

I grew up loving films and making stupid movies with a good friend of mine, who now actually has a career in a really prominent special effects house, so he's still doing it. We just started messing around with a camera.

I understood why films were made, and if they made a lot of money, they were successful. All of these things I knew. As a ten-year-old boy, I didn't really think a lot about finances or celebrity. I always viewed films as kind of what I imagined a summer camp to be like.

My friends and I started making films when I was still in kindergarten.

I enjoy working on a movie that lets your imagination run wild, it's great to be a part of and watch.

I started when I was eight, doing super 8 films.

I dream for a living. Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to, and I see another movie I want to make.

I started making Super 8-mm films when I was about six years old and just never stopped. It was always just a hobby, but it's one of the few hobbies that can actually become a career. You know what? I think it was my plan from when I was six that this is what I was going to do.

My dad gave me his camera, so I spent my childhood making movies with the kids in the neighborhood as actors.

I liked writing with my friends and making our own little stories. Making a movie like 'Spider-Man' never even crossed my mind.

I always had this imagination about making colorful movies. I use to walk to school and daydream about it.

My dad and I used to shoot little one-stop animations on an old 8mm film camera when I was no more than 7 or 8, and when he was away at work, I would keep shooting nonsensical, short animated films using 'Star Wars' figures or Smurfs - depended what the narrative was.

Before I even knew what that half of my family did, I was interested in performing. I remember being seven years old and up on a stage and loving it. I've always adored it. Not just acting, but the whole process of writing and directing movies, everything that has to do with that part of life. Maybe it's in my blood.

I think ever since I was preteen I wanted to direct movies and tell stories.

I grew up in a community of theatre, and I always loved musicals. From a young age, the first present I ever wanted was a video camera. For me it was a great outlet to be creative.

Filming 'Bad Santa' was really where I learned everything that I knew at that point about movies. That was really the first big thing that I had done.

Every time you make a movie it's an adventure.

'Super 8' was a lot of fun. It was a lot of fun working with J.J. Abrams, who I think is a kid in a grown man's body, which is a great ingredient for any artist in our business. You have to be a kid at heart to be able to make believe, and his imagination is phenomenal.

I love making movies.

There's no one 'right' way of making a science fiction movie; there's no one way of making any kind of movie, really!

My intention is to do more films.

I like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.

I've always said that I don't believe in Santa Claus, but I could make a great movie about him if I set my mind to it.

I always loved movies. I wanted to be in them! I always saw them and said, 'How do you do that?' It seemed like going to the moon. It was not a rational thought, but that's the only thing I wanted to do.