Drew Goddard Quotes

When I write a book... it's the same essential approach to music as with books. It has to be something I want to hear or read. Hopefully the audience comes along, since that's the only way you can write righteously. I have to ask, 'What do I want to hear?' not 'What do people want to hear?'

I don't necessarily go out and try to do something that's going to be just something that will please the audience. I'm not interested in doing something where I get the most people to come see the movie at the same time and they get the biggest explosion. I'm not interested in that.

You have to make films you feel strongly about. And then hope you can find the audience.

The only way for me to be an artist is to be honest in my craft. If I veer from that, I'm not giving the investors what they want. Sometimes it's my job as an artist to know what I want to do, even when the fans tell me different.

It's good to please the network, but you really just have to tell the stories you want to tell, and if you try to please other people, it ends up starting to water stuff down. Those decisions we have to make are hard, but we usually just err on the side of 'What would we want to see?'

You can't expect to connect with everybody, and that's all right. The more I make films, I'm learning that you don't have to make films for everybody. A film can be made for a smaller group of people than that, and it still warrants an existence.

I'd love more production houses to encourage artists to create what they want and not just churn things out.

This goes for our songwriting as well as our success as a band - the minute we stopped chasing what we thought people wanted to hear and started writing things that moved us, that's when people started paying attention.

I'd rather make a show 100 people need to see, than a show that 1000 people want to see.

I make films, and I hope that people come to see them. If they don't, I pay a big price. But I can't make decisions where I would change my own standards or my own taste in order to court the public in some way.

I don't want to sell my soul to Hollywood - to just make run-of-the-mill stuff.

If I get a note on my script or my films, what I say to a studio executive is that, 'You know, this is the film of my legacy, and I never want to be sitting in a theater looking up on the screen and seeing something that I don't believe in.' I will never do that.

I think if you try to tailor your act to anybody, you end up with an act that doesn't work anyway.

We make films that we ourselves would want to see and then hope that other people would want to see it. If you try to analyze audiences or think there's some sophisticated recipe for success, then I think you are doomed. You're making it too complicated.

Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.

I like to do films that I would want to go see, basically. I'm not out to make a fast buck.

You hear it said time and time again by successful directors: You have to make a movie for yourself. Don't make it for anyone else.

'Playing House' works because we're being supremely honest to what we think is funny and not what we think other people think is funny.

I only make those films that I would love to watch.

The music is the thing. I am not writing for critics; I don't want to become a personality.

I feel you lose your audience when you make movies for others and not for yourself or your people.

Certain people like the way I make films, and others do not. I've come to terms with the fact that there's no other way I can make films. If I tried to do it in a different way, it would never work.

You can't make a film for your personal satisfaction. That is why I detest the cinema of people like Mani Kaul.

I'm not going to make a song just to make a song. The day that I make an album, it's so that people really know what Bad Bunny's about.

Rozay is an artist himself so he understands the importance of being true to your work.