Drew Goddard Quotes

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Drew Goddard

Profession : Director

Birth : February 26, 1975

I can always tell when a filmmaker doesn't care about his or her characters; they just care about setting them up to kill them off.

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When you're talking about who is doing the most exciting and interesting horror films of the last 20 years, it's Japan. I mean, they are making amazing films.

Drew Goddard

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, just try to do something new and fresh.

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If I had to pick one scary movie, I'd go with John Carpenter's 'The Thing.' That's probably number one.

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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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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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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.

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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.

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I guess I'm just the kind of person who likes to do it all. It's fun to put on the writer's hat and go hide by myself with my computer for six months. Then it's fun to come out and put the director hat on and deal with all the things that a director deals with. Then it's fun to just be the producer and, um, not do anything.

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I love cult movies. I probably have watched 'Big Trouble In Little China' more than anyone on the planet.

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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.

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In the 'Buffy' room, it was never about a plot twist, ever. It was always about, 'Tell the story, tell the characters, complicate their lives, make things get worse,' but we never worked backwards from the plot, and it was always a great lesson.

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It was a lot of 'Dungeons and Dragons' all through my teens.

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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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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.

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

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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 could, I would sneak over so I could watch.

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Here's the thing about 'Cabin in the Woods.' I did virtually no research on this movie.

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