Words matter. These are the best Drew Goddard Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I understand why offices need to have office parties. I understand why offices need to have betting pools. No matter what the job, you need things to foster camaraderie and let off steam.
Filmmaking is incredible introspective. It forces you to sort of examine yourself in new ways.
Truth is, I don’t like movies that are only good once; I tend to dismiss them. I like movies that get better the more you watch them.
There’s just something wonderful about getting a small group of people together in an isolated location, and there’s something about cabins themselves that imply both horror and fun. When you go to a cabin, you’re usually going to have a good time.
You can always trust that an audience is smarter than a studio thinks it is.
If you can relate to what the character’s going through, the story can be as ridiculous as possible, and people will relate to it. You can be fearless in your storytelling if you’re vigilant about protecting your characters.
I think that there’s good movies and there’s bad movies, and sometimes the bad movies spoil it for the rest of us, and we focus on them, but in the long run, all that matters are the good movies. Those are the ones that we will remember.
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.
I love going to horror movies – especially when they are fun. I think that they get you in touch with sort of these primal instincts that we all have in the relative safety of the theater.
It was a lot of ‘Dungeons and Dragons’ all through my teens.
I think ‘The Thing’ is so good because it’s not just a scary movie. It’s also social commentary, which works on multiple levels, which is something I really respond to.
My favorite movies are the ones that are different the second time, or where you’re constantly discovering new things. It’s not just genre movies, either, and it’s not just about twists. I saw ‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’ four times in the theater before I realized it’s a love story. I love that.
Like everyone else, I love ‘Born Again:’ that was a seminal work for me. Everything Frank Miller did on ‘Daredevil’ is like the Bible.
The horror genre gets you in touch with our primal instincts as a people more than any other genre I can think of. It gives you this chance to sort of reflect on who we are and look at the sort of uglier side that we don’t always look at, and have fun with that very thing.
The logistics of blood is something that I didn’t even understood as a first-time director. Not just actors and make-up, but once a set gets bloody, you don’t un-blood it. Once something gets bloody, you either rebuild the set, or you just don’t get the shot.
When Steven Spielberg comes to you and says, ‘Hey do you want to write a movie about robots?’ You just say yes.
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.
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.
The more work you put in on your outline and getting the skeleton of your story right, the easier the process is later.
It’s not like vampires are inherently bad. It’s just people need to make better vampire movies.
I love cult movies. I probably have watched ‘Big Trouble In Little China’ more than anyone on the planet.
There will be a Skype movie soon… someone will crack the code, and it will be great. Then, there’ll be 30 Skype movies, and we’ll be like, ‘Oh, that’s boring.’
Some of our best episodes of ‘Buffy’ were written over a weekend. You can really get in touch with your creative spirit when you’re at your most desperate.
You don’t want to make a movie just to make a movie. You better have a point of view.
I feel the way I always do about sequels. If there’s an idea that excites me enough, and it feels like a way to do something new and fresh, then great. But I don’t ever want to do a sequel just for the sake of doing a sequel.
Here’s the thing about ‘Cabin in the Woods.’ I did virtually no research on this movie.
I’ve always said I’m less interested in twists as I am about escalation.
Every project is different. Adapting ‘Robopocalypse’ would be totally different than adapting, say, ‘Hunger Games.’ Each project has its own life and its own identity. You get into trouble when you think there’s one single way to approach everything. Each project, there’s a different way to attack it.
I love a good harsh horror movie, when it’s done well. But there are times when it feels cynical. You can tell when a filmmaker loves the genre, and you can tell when someone’s just cashing in a paycheck. Then it becomes a dumbing down – a fetishisation of violence that I react very strongly against.
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.