Drew Goddard famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Fun #Monsters
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
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

#Enemy #Quality #Benefits
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.
-- Drew Goddard

#Fun #People #Together
Filmmaking is incredible introspective. It forces you to sort of examine yourself in new ways.
-- Drew Goddard

#Way #Incredibles #Force
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
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
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
I do love writing but it is a lonely profession. You're lonely and optimistic at the same time.
-- Drew Goddard

#Lonely #Writing #Optimistic
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
Everything I've ever worked on has been hard to classify.
-- Drew Goddard

#Has Beens #Hard
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
The most fun characters to work with are characters that are complicated.
-- Drew Goddard

#Fun #Character #Complicated
I don't like nihilistic characters. As bad guys they're great, but as heroes they don't work.
-- Drew Goddard

#Hero #Character #Guy
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
I just go with what excites me.
-- Drew Goddard
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
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
It's so rare that you meet your idols and they outdo your expectations.
-- Drew Goddard

#Idols #Expectations
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
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
I try not to get too cute for cute's sake.
-- Drew Goddard

#Cute #Trying #Sake
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

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