Hey, this is John. A standard warning for people who are in the car with their kids.

There's some swearing in this episode.

Hello and welcome. My name is John August, and you're listening to Script Notes.

It's a podcast about screenwriting and things that are interesting to screenwriters.

Today on the show, how do you honor a genre while still pushing out its boundaries?

Our guest today is Robert Eggers, a writer and director whose movies include The Witch, The Lighthouse, the Northman, and most recently, Nesferatu.

Welcome, Robert.

Thanks for having me.

So reading through those credits, this is going to be your first movie that doesn't have a the in front of it, at least that I've noticed.

There's no the Nospheratu.

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POV as a director and sort of where you're at as you're putting scenes together.

Also, I want to try to answer a couple listener questions we have about historical detail,

feeling stupid, and whether writers make bad romantic partners, because you've just made a gothic

romance, so we want to talk about that. And in our bonus topic for premium members let's talk about cycling because that is the thing

you do in your off time that I don't think I've had anyone on the podcast talk about before so I want

to talk about cycling how you got into it and what role it fills in your life but let's dig right

into it so Robert give us some backstory on on how you came to be a writer and director.

You grew up in New England.

Like, where did you start with storytelling and with, you know, movies?

Yeah, I mean, avid movie watcher, like a good American kid growing up in the 80s and 90s

and watched ungodly amounts of television,

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