Drew Goddard
Drew Goddard
Andrew Brion Hogan Goddard, better known as Drew Goddard, is an American film and television screenwriter, director, and producer. After writing the successful cult film Cloverfield and multiple episodes of TV shows such as Lost, he made his feature film directorial debut with the 2012 horror dark comedy The Cabin in the Woods. In 2015, he penned the film adaption of Andy Weir's book The Martian, for which he won the National Board of Review Award for Best Adapted Screenplay...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth26 February 1975
CountryUnited States of America
I do love writing but it is a lonely profession. You're lonely and optimistic at the same time.
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.
Some people like when it rains a lot. Some people like sunshine. The idea that there's one, all encompassing afterlife is strange. It doesn't seem to make sense because we're all such different people.
Everything I've ever worked on has been hard to classify.
The greatest villain of all time is The Joker - he always has been, and I don't know anyone who's not going to have Heath Ledger's performance burnt into their brains for the rest of their lives.
Filmmaking is incredible introspective. It forces you to sort of examine yourself in new ways.