My first teacher was Steven Spielberg. I worked on Amazing Stories. That was my first job, as a writer and as a story editor. Watching him and his co…

- Mick Garris

The filmmakers are very much in their own kind of bubble. It was kind of a revelation to me and I realized why so many of the great filmmakers are on…

- Mick Garris

The whole point is you're telling a story to an audience. So when there's no audience, it's like cinematic masturbation.

- Mick Garris

For me, it's important that a movie is the congregate of all art forms, from writing to art composition to music to performing. Trying to keep a bala…

- Mick Garris

The best actors in the world are the actors who don't keep the walls up all the time and allow themselves the potential to be embarrassed.

- Mick Garris

The only features I've done have been on the lower-budget end, for what they were. It's really all about getting the best people aboard and committin…

- Mick Garris

It's exciting not knowing what I'm doing next, but it won't be long before I'm going to feel like I needed to be doing something, whatever it is.

- Mick Garris

Fighting the wild branches of a haunted tree is not something that every actor is confident enough to attack, literally and figuratively.

- Mick Garris

Obviously not a Stephen King level writer, but I'd written short stories and short fiction, from the time I was 12.

- Mick Garris