Drew Goddard Quotes

If you look back at a film like 'Dawn of the Dead' - You can either watch it as a straight-up genre film and have fun with zombies being shot, or you can look at it as a metaphor for consumerism. Or a metaphor for the Vietnam war.

I think that The Eye is a particularly Americanized take on horror.

The first horror film I remember seeing in the theatre was Halloween and from the first scene when the kid puts on the mask and it is his POV, I was hooked.

I don't like the new trends in horror. All this torture stuff seems really mean-spirited. People have forgotten how to laugh, and I don't see anybody who's using it as allegory.

What I like about the Carpenter take on 'The Thing' is the fact that it just has so much suspense. It seemed like a different story, with the horror elements.

I would love to make a horror picture!

The Lighthouse' isn't scary. A few people have said it is, but I don't think it is.

Why should a horror film be just a horror film? To me, The Company of Wolves is a fairy tale; it's got all those elements plus a lot more. And we know that fairy tales aren't innocent any more.

The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.

My dad was on 'Zombieland,' and I love that movie. So yeah, I think I like the horror genre!

The Company of Wolves doesn't belong in any category, so it's difficult to prepare an audience for it. It's not a horror film, it's not a fantasy film, it's not a children's film - so what is it?

My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.

In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies like The Shining. You had a connection to the characters in that film.

You know, the best thing you can say about a horror film is, 'Don't see it.'

One of the biggest problems in literature is the lack of subtlety.

If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea.

For kind of sophisticated art I'm interested in, the larger structural rebuke has to be so subtle that it has to be distributed at an almost sub-atomic level. Otherwise, you fall into the kind of preachy, moralistic fable that I don't think makes for good literature.

I'm always a fan of a good horror film.

Most of my films have a lot of character development and exploration, whereas in most horror movies the characters are just cardboard.

'Rosemary's Baby' is a real New York movie, even though you wouldn't necessarily think of it as one, though I do.

You get a little picture that reflects the whole. You can get readers interested in the life of one guy, and he can reflect the whole life around him. And it's a better picture than the politicians give you.

'Arcadia' is obviously a play that's got interesting things in it that are perhaps quite hard to grasp.

In 'Crush,' it still has a lot of elements of other genres, and then the horror is layered on top of it, especially towards the end.

That's what happens in a good horror movie: there are always metaphors of greater subjects like humanity and empathy and compassion. It's not about the action and scary moments: You really care about these characters because they're mirrors of our own reflections.

I like to use horror as allegory.