Drew Goddard Quotes
Directing is a unique endeavor where you are in charge of so many people. As a writer, it is sort of the opposite.
Quotes to Explore
-
Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
-
A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
-
Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
-
You can talk about and think about Muslims as you want, but you can't stop Muslims from building a mosque. You can hate Muslims from the comfort of your house or publicly, but when that becomes stopping Muslims from building a mosque or worshipping, then we are crossing the line into something else.
-
When I was a little kid, I used to watch with my brother when there was Macho Man and Hulk Hogan. But then I fell out of it for a few years.
-
The U.S. should worry about the effects of its polices on the rest of the world. We would like to live in a world where countries take into account the effect of their policies on other countries and do what is right, broadly, rather than what is just right given the circumstances of that country.
-
Speaking is physically difficult for me.
-
What we have done, the result of that comes to us whenever it comes, either today, tomorrow, hundred years later, hundred lives later, whatever, whatever. And so, it's our own karma. That is why that philosophy in every religion: Killing is sin. Killing is sin in every religion.
-
None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
-
I would think about the outcome. Visualize sometimes. Because it never comes out the way you want it to. Fight the way I know how to fight. Whatever comes up, comes up.
-
The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive.
-
Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
-
I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.
-
I want to have an impact on my son.
-
If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
-
What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
-
There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.
-
When you make a movie, you really have to be clever and smart, find something new for the worldwide audience because you aren't making a movie for just France or Germany; it's for everyone in the world.
-
Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
-
Everyone is so afraid of making themselves look bad and of judgement.
-
The de industrialization of the US. economy based on the migration of corporations into third world areas where labor is very cheap and thus more profitable for these companies creates on the one hand conditions in those countries that encourage people to emigrate to the US. in search of a better life. On the other hand, it creates conditions here that send more black people into the alternative economies, the drug economies, women into economies in sexual services, and sends them into the prison industrial complex.
-
Policy makers have plainly failed both here in the United States and in Europe as well. People who have suffered because of that. And when they say, "Throw out economists, we don't trust economists anymore," you can totally understand why.
-
Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
-
Directing is a unique endeavor where you are in charge of so many people. As a writer, it is sort of the opposite.
