Drew Goddard Quotes

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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• I love making movies, but a movie becomes your entire life for, like, two to two and a half years. There's no way around it; if you're really going to be serious about a movie, it has to be your life.

  

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• Adam Sandler is a remarkable movie brand.

  

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• I was hoping, actually, that being on the other side of the camera in a scary movie, see how it's filmed and maybe you won't be as scared next time you watch one... didn't really work out! Because I know it's fake, but I just get so into it.

  

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• One minute, it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle; the next – no one wanted me.

  

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• I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard.

  

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• Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.

  

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• One of my main weaknesses is a good movie. I'll just bawl my eyes out.

  

  Randy Houser
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• Truth be told, actually, my favorite director of the Movie Brats was not Scorsese. Loved him. But my favorite director of the Movie Brats was Brian de Palma. I actually met De Palma right after I'd done 'Reservoir Dogs,' and I was very beside myself.

  

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• I like to release music the way I feel it, as opposed to having a date. The idea of dates, boxes, categories are very scary for me.

  

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• If I go into a restaurant there's a very good chance that I'm going to spend my time being the mayor. If I want to have a good time, I'm happier having dinner here.

  

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• Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.

  

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• I've never done a superhero movie. It's very nice to you as an actor in several worlds to go and to experiment.

  

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• Now, I just made an animated movie a few years ago, 'The Tale of Desperaux', and that had twelve hundred shots in it. Twelve hundred CG shots is a pretty big plan.

  

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• As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.

  

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• I would really like to do a straight action movie that's hardcore - heavy action, like 'The Expendables' or 'Fast Five.'

  

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• Oh I'm a huge comic book movie fan.

  

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• Schools, the first thing they cut is music programs. They don't realize how important music is to kids.

  

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• I'm not impersonating anybody. I'm perfectly satisfied with what I am.

  

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• If I could time-travel, I would either go to the '70s and watch the first 'Star Wars' film the day it opened, or to 1880s London, during the Jack the Ripper era, and experience the true grossness of that time.

  

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• I made a lot of different experiments with tapes at that time, until I finally realized around 1995, that sound is an interesting subject for me. Ever since then sound got more and more integrated into my art works, musically as well as physically.

  

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• I myself am frustrated in just where sports are at. It's a hard thing when you're out there working every day, and you know that someone else is cheating and they may not necessarily get caught.

  

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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.

  

  Drew Goddard
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