Drew Goddard Quotes

I'm always sorry to finish a book, to let go of characters I love, people I've struggled to understand for years, people who evolve before me.

I love the long-form format of television. I love being able to develop a character, over a long period of time.

I love seeing a story evolve over several books and watching characters develop.

Being able to stay with a character over the course of years is a gift.

I love series television because it's so much fun to have that much opportunity to paint the character.

When any character gets killed, there's always a sadness about that, because they're part of the family in a way.

In film, because you know where the ending is, characters can change, but in television, you substitute revelation for change, and that can be hard to pull off.

There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.

I think if you've held onto a character for several years and then you're getting rid of that character, it's going to be traumatic.

I plot the first 5 or 6 chapters quite minutely, and also the end. So I know where I am going but not how I'm going to get there, which gives characters the chance to develop organically, as happens in real life as you get to know a person.

Film is so much to do with perfection and how differently you can feel about someone at the beginning of the film and the end of the film.

I think what good television does well is that it shows characters evolving.

I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.

I love it when characters surprise you, just like real people. When I write a scene I just try to make the characters behave in a way that feels natural to them. Sometimes that means they make a left turn and do something unexpected. Those are always the best scenes in my opinion.

The fun thing about doing origin stories is you are introducing the audience to characters.

There's something really satisfying if you've created a bunch of characters that have withstood 25 episodes.

I love writing letters. In order to write a novel in first person, I think I needed an addressee.

I love it and it is a blessing to be able to have seventy-five to eighty episodes to develop a character and find your voice. You have a similar through voice, and yet you are making different decisions, and so you act differently and you make different choices, as that is what your character would do.

I'd love to do a film. I'd love to play a character that I know the beginning, middle and end of.

I love that there's a beginning, middle and end to a film and you can craft what the whole journey is going to look like.

I'm interested in telling the character's story, not my beliefs, political or otherwise.

That's why I love doing television because it's something that fans and viewers can sit down each week and get to know your character and get to know the show and get to know what's going on and fall in love with you all over again, like they did in previous shows.

In particular, I'm drawn to the stories that have big, high concepts and real characters at their heart. And I love where those two worlds meet, and 'Edge of Tomorrow' is the perfect canvas to explore that.

I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word: a journey.

I think what is nice about 'Elf,' and why it doesn't play as one long sketch, is that the character actually grows up during the course of the film. It's not just a character that you can keep checking in on and keep doing sketches about. It's a story. I'm pretty proud of how we told it.