82 Quotes by Drew Goddard

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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