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" I love a good harsh horror movie, when it's done well. But there are times when it feels cynical. You can tell when a filmmaker loves the genre, and you can tell when someone's just cashing in a paycheck. Then it becomes a dumbing down - a fetishisation of violence that I react very strongly against. "

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" I think that there's good movies and there's bad movies, and sometimes the bad movies spoil it for the rest of us, and we focus on them, but in the long run, all that matters are the good movies. Those are the ones that we will remember. "

" You can always trust that an audience is smarter than a studio thinks it is. "

" A movie that's about other horror movies isn't interesting. A movie about who we are, is. "

" When Carpenter was shooting 'Vampires' in New Mexico when I was living there, I desperately tried to get a job working on that film, and I couldn't. So my first job as a PA was on a CBS movie of the week that was shooting next door, and whenever I could, I would sneak over so I could watch. "

" 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. "

" In the 'Buffy' room, it was never about a plot twist, ever. It was always about, 'Tell the story, tell the characters, complicate their lives, make things get worse,' but we never worked backwards from the plot, and it was always a great lesson. "

" It's not like vampires are inherently bad. It's just people need to make better vampire movies. "

" I understand why offices need to have office parties. I understand why offices need to have betting pools. No matter what the job, you need things to foster camaraderie and let off steam. "

" The logistics of blood is something that I didn't even understood as a first-time director. Not just actors and make-up, but once a set gets bloody, you don't un-blood it. Once something gets bloody, you either rebuild the set, or you just don't get the shot. "

" I love TV. I've been lucky that I get to do both, and both have things I love about them, features and TV. I hope I get to do both for the rest of my career. "

" I've always said I'm less interested in twists as I am about escalation. "

Drew Goddard

I Am

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" Directing is a unique endeavor where you are in charge of so many people. As a writer, it is sort of the opposite. "

" I think the thing I took most from game playing was just getting in the characters head. I took it really seriously. There's something about creating your character. "

" If I had to pick one scary movie, I'd go with John Carpenter's 'The Thing.' That's probably number one. "

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" Like everyone else, I love 'Born Again:' that was a seminal work for me. Everything Frank Miller did on 'Daredevil' is like the Bible. "

Drew Goddard

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" I think 'The Thing' is so good because it's not just a scary movie. It's also social commentary, which works on multiple levels, which is something I really respond to. "

" 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. "

" The more work you put in on your outline and getting the skeleton of your story right, the easier the process is later. "

" Filmmaking is incredible introspective. It forces you to sort of examine yourself in new ways. "

" I just don't want to make the same old movies. I'm not interested in it. Directing's hard. It takes up a lot of your life, and I'm not that interested in making the same old film. "

" When Steven Spielberg comes to you and says, 'Hey do you want to write a movie about robots?' You just say yes. "

" 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. "

" I think audiences crave something new. I don't think audiences want the same old thing, no matter how much conventional Hollywood tells you that. "

" Some of our best episodes of 'Buffy' were written over a weekend. You can really get in touch with your creative spirit when you're at your most desperate. "

" 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. "

" You don't want to make a movie just to make a movie. You better have a point of view. "

" It was a lot of 'Dungeons and Dragons' all through my teens. "

" That's the thing about Lionsgate. They are fearless. No other studio would have made 'Hunger Games' the way they did. They're being fearless in the way they make decisions, and it's paying off for them. "

" As a filmmaker, I wish we didn't have to do trailers at all, quite honestly. I wish we didn't have to do posters. I wish didn't have to give anything away. I wish people could just come in the movie blind. But as an audience member, I respect that you have to tell an audience that this is worth your time. "