Top 82 Quotes & Sayings by Drew Goddard - Page 2

I love TV. I've been lucky that I get to do both, and both have things I love about them, features and TV. I hope I get to do both for the rest of my career.

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

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

I just go with what excites me.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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

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.

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.

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