Drew Goddard Quotes
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You don't want to make a movie just to make a movie. You better have a point of view.
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Like anything, I think there are some wonderful found footage movies, and there are some less good. Certainly when it's done well, I really love it. I really love it as a genre.
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This is what I do for fun - brainstorm about monsters!
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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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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.
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You can always trust that an audience is smarter than a studio thinks it is.
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It was a lot of 'Dungeons and Dragons' all through my teens.
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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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I grew up in Los Alamos, New Mexico, which is my hometown. In Los Alamos is, for people who don't know, a nuclear lab that built the atomic bomb. The only reason the town exists is to make nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction, and that's still happening there.
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The movies I respond to are by guys like the Coen brothers and Edgar Wright, where it's hard to fit them into any one box.
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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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Filmmaking is incredible introspective. It forces you to sort of examine yourself in new ways.
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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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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.