Drew Goddard Quotes

• Filmmaking is incredible introspective. It forces you to sort of examine yourself in new ways.

  Drew Goddard

  Way, Incredibles, Force

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• We've always been a band who's taken forever to do things. After writing 'Persona' I think we wrote about four songs in three years!

  Drew Goddard

  Song, Taken, Writing

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• Theres just something wonderful about getting a small group of people together in an isolated location, and theres something about cabins themselves that imply both horror and fun. When you go to a cabin, youre usually going to have a good time.

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  Fun, People, Together

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• The truth is, writing and directing are two very different jobs. They're not even remotely the same job. It took me a while, as a director, to understand that.

  Drew Goddard

  Jobs, Writing, Two

  Source: www.ign.com

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• Ive found that if you just try to make the film you want, youll find the right audience. If you try to please everyone, youre going to make really boring films.

  Drew Goddard

  Trying, Want, Film

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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.

  Drew Goddard

  Skeletons, Stories, Easier

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• This is what I do for fun - brainstorm about monsters!

  Drew Goddard

  Fun, Monsters

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• I do love writing but it is a lonely profession. You're lonely and optimistic at the same time.

  Drew Goddard

  Lonely, Writing, Optimistic

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• With horror movies, a bigger budget is actually your enemy. You want to feel the rough edges, the handmade quality to good horror films. Its a genre that benefits from not having everything at your disposal.

  Drew Goddard

  Rough Edges, Enemy, Quality

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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.

  Drew Goddard

  Brain, Villain, All Time

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• I happen to like things that are funny and dramatic at the same time. I don't see the difference.

  Drew Goddard

  Differences, Dramatic, Happens

  Source: www.ign.com

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• Everything I've ever worked on has been hard to classify.

  Drew Goddard

  Has Beens, Hard

  Source: www.ign.com

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• Some people like when it rains a lot. Some people like sunshine. The idea that there's one, all encompassing afterlife is strange. It doesn't seem to make sense because we're all such different people.

  Drew Goddard

  Rain, Sunshine, Ideas

  Source: www.ign.com

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• The most fun characters to work with are characters that are complicated.

  Drew Goddard

  Fun, Character, Complicated

  Source: www.ign.com

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• I don't like nihilistic characters. As bad guys they're great, but as heroes they don't work.

  Drew Goddard

  Hero, Character, Guy

  Source: www.ign.com

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• In a weird way, it's much easier, when I don't have to worry about being a writer, to just worry about the director job, which is really fun.

  Drew Goddard

  Jobs, Fun, Worry

  Source: www.ign.com

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• I just go with what excites me.

  Drew Goddard

  Source: www.ign.com

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• What I'm looking for in my career, you know? You're looking for those lightning bolts of inspiration where someone says something that sparks an idea or suggests something strange.

  Drew Goddard

  Inspiration, Careers, Ideas

  Source: www.ign.com

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• That's kind of how I've based my career. I find talented people and beg me to let me work with them.

  Drew Goddard

  Careers, People, Kind

  Source: www.ign.com

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• It's so rare that you meet your idols and they outdo your expectations.

  Drew Goddard

  Idols, Expectations

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I do feel there's certainly some films where you can feel that the directors don't care about the genre and they don't care about their characters.

  Drew Goddard

  Character, Directors, Care

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• All movies are alchemy and time is one of the ingredients that goes into the alchemy. You want the time to be right; you don't want to rush it. You need the right script, the right cast and the right feeling in the culture.

  Drew Goddard

  Feelings, Needs, Culture

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• I try not to get too cute for cute's sake.

  Drew Goddard

  Cute, Trying, Sake

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• I love superheroes and I love weird horror films... I could definitely feel that there was a lack of movies like The Martian being made: smart genre movies that can appeal to adults.

  Drew Goddard

  Smart, Superhero, Adults

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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