The director has only made movies set in the past, but he has chosen wildly different settings for each project.

Never say never, but Nosferatu filmmaker Robert Eggers is pretty much dead-set on not making a contemporary movie. The auteur - whose pics have spanned 1630’s and 1890’s New England (2015’s The Witch and 2019’s The Lighthouse,

Director Robert Eggers has no interest in making a contemporary movie because the idea of filming a phone or a car makes him feel "ill".