Quotes by Drew Goddard

About Drew Goddard:

Andrew Brion Hogan Goddard is an American film and television screenwriter, director, and producer. He made his feature film directorial debut with the 2012 dark comedy horror-thriller, The Cabin in the Woods.
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When Carpenter was shooting 'Vampires' in New Mexico when I was living there, I desperately tried to get a job working on that film, and I couldn't. So my first job as a PA was on a CBS movie of the week that was shooting next door, and whenever I co...

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You don't want to make a movie just to make a movie. You better have a point of view.

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That's the fun part about being a director. You get to say, 'Oh, now that I'm in charge, I can try and cast whoever I want.' They can always say no, but that's okay.

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I had one of those families that let me watch things they should not have let me watch. When I was a kid, I remember I watched 'Alien' at, like, 6. It was traumatizing.

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One of the things that's been nice about my career is that I've been able to do so many different things, and variety keeps your creative soul fulfilled. I'm constantly looking to find new things to do. It's just project to project for me. You never ...

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When you are dealing with something that's crazy, you still want actors to play characters and find the reality of the situation, no matter how absurd the situation is.

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I think the thing I took most from game playing was just getting in the characters head. I took it really seriously. There's something about creating your character.

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The greatest villain of all time is The Joker - he always has been, and I don't know anyone who's not going to have Heath Ledger's performance burnt into their brains for the rest of their lives.

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We've always idealized youth and then destroyed youth. That has happened since the beginning of time, and I'm fascinated by why we do that.

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You can always trust that an audience is smarter than a studio thinks it is.

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As a filmmaker, I wish we didn't have to do trailers at all, quite honestly. I wish we didn't have to do posters. I wish didn't have to give anything away. I wish people could just come in the movie blind. But as an audience member, I respect that yo...

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Certainly, 3rd acts of any movie are hard. It's always hard to have something that will give you the promises from the beginning of the movie. That's true for all movies.

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A movie that's about other horror movies isn't interesting. A movie about who we are, is.

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I feel that in horror movies, especially, if you don't care about the characters, you've lost the audience. No one cares, and it becomes a process of watching people get killed.

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I think so much of the horror film is about our primal instincts, and our primal instincts are not just towards violence. It's also towards sex. I feel like horror movies, as much as they're about violence, they're also about sex. It's about our inst...

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If you worry too much about anything, you end up making bad movies.

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The movies I respond to are by guys like the Coen brothers and Edgar Wright, where it's hard to fit them into any one box.

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It's not like vampires are inherently bad. It's just people need to make better vampire movies.

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Clearly, the works of John Carpenter and Sam Raimi are front and center here. Argento is definitely there. But even stuff like the 'Friday the 13th' movies had quite an influence on me growing up.

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I've been lucky between 'Buffy,' 'Angel,' 'Alias,' and then 'Lost.' The thing they all have in common is that they were all fearless. They were not afraid to be different and try something different. Even if you didn't know that it was going to work,...

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The more work you put in on your outline and getting the skeleton of your story right, the easier the process is later.

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Author Bio

  • NameDrew Goddard
  • DescriptionWriter, director
  • BornFebruary 26, 1975
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionFilm Director; Screenwriter; Writer
  • AwardsWriters Guild Of America Award