David S. Goyer
David S. Goyer
David Samuel Goyeris an American screenwriter, film director, novelist, producer, and comic book writer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth22 December 1965
CountryUnited States of America
David S. Goyer quotes about
argue decide found instance ipad played realistic school sword totally
You have to decide what kind of story you're going to tell. For instance I would argue a movie like 'Toy Story 3,' which isn't realistic at all, is really emotional and involving. It just depends. I played this game called 'Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP' for iPad that is totally old school 8-bit, which I found very moving.
allowed experience successful
'Flash Forward' was one of the big heartbreaks of my career. It was just this very frustrating experience. If we'd been allowed to tell the story we wanted to tell, I don't know that it would've been more successful or not. There's no way to know.
assimilate comic hard jewish mainstream originally publishing time trying
When Superman was originally created, by Siegel and Shuster, they were two Jewish immigrants that were desperately trying to assimilate into America. They were having a hard time because they were Jewish. They wanted to get in to mainstream publishing but they couldn't. That's why they, and a lot of Jewish guys, went into comic books.
casting love loves pigeonhole type
I love casting against type and doing things you wouldn't expect, because I think you get more interesting performances that way. Hollywood loves to pigeonhole people, and there's nothing an actor loves more than to do something different.
book reading mean
I'm a big comic book geek and I've been reading comic books since pretty much since I was five or six in 1971 or something like that. So, I mean, I read it all and there's certainly a lot of different iterations of Superman that I personally have enjoyed more than others.
four pages scripts
I did three or four weeks of work on 'Godzilla;' it wasn't a page-one rewrite or anything like that. The term is 'script doctoring,' is what I did on it.
games digging thrones
I honestly love nothing better than digging into a really good serialized show, whether it's 'Breaking Bad' or 'Game of Thrones' or 'Justified.'
Superman is not as innately cool as Batman.
thinking regard revising
I think I regard any history in quotes, because just like science, we're constantly revising science, we're constantly revising history.
book reading writing
I grew up reading comic books, pulp books, mystery and science fiction and fantasy. I'm a geek; I make no pretensions otherwise. It's the stuff that I love writing about. I like creating worlds.
demon embedded reason
Mysticism and the supernatural are embedded in the show - it's called 'Da Vinci's Demons' for a reason, and it's not just metaphorical.
people telling-stories stories
I like telling stories of imperfect people because most people are imperfect.
book long greek
I've long said that comic books are the modern equivalent of our Greek myths.
thinking would-be aliens
I think if we ever encountered aliens, even communicating with them would be really, really difficult.