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
Directing is a unique endeavor where you are in charge of so many people. As a writer, it is sort of the opposite.
It was a lot of 'Dungeons and Dragons' all through my teens.
That's the fun part about being a director. You get to say, 'Oh, now that I'm in charge, I can try and cast whoever I want.' They can always say no, but that's okay.
It's not like vampires are inherently bad. It's just people need to make better vampire movies.
You don't want to make a movie just to make a movie. You better have a point of view.
There will be a Skype movie soon... someone will crack the code, and it will be great. Then, there'll be 30 Skype movies, and we'll be like, 'Oh, that's boring.'
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.
If I had all the filmmakers that traumatized me when I was a little kid in this room, all I would say is, 'Thank you,' because they've made me who I am. As much as I say 'trauma,' it all comes from a place of love. The fact that I am feeling emotions at all based on a work is a wonderful thing, so I'm happy to be a part of that discussion.
I can always tell when a filmmaker doesn't care about his or her characters; they just care about setting them up to kill them off.
You start to fall in love with characters as you work with them, and anytime that you care about your characters and you realize that you're gonna have to kill them, that fear creeps in. It's sad. It's scary, and it's also sad. Because you like these people.
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.