Drew Goddard Quotes

Writing monsters is fun, and it's easy. When I want one, I just reach under the bed and pull it out, kicking and screaming.

I don't often know exactly what's coming next, and that makes it more fun. And you know, for me, this entire genre is all about that; it's all about having fun and getting away from the mundane world for just a little while.

If anyone said to me 'invent a new monster so we can sell more toys', I'd kick them out of my office.

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.

I think it's also safe to say genre TV and movies were a big influence - the first stories I ever tried to write were Godzilla fan fiction when I was in elementary school, complete with elaborate maps of Monster Island made with multiple sheets of typing paper and nearly six feet wide. I kind of wish I still had those.

I know I'm not creating transcendent works that will someday be taught in college. All I do is entertain. I try to entertain others by sending them into another world for a few hours. When I see my books read on the beach, the pages dabbed with suntan lotion, then I feel as if I've done my job.

Chess is a great game. It's a lot of fun, but sometimes you wonder what else is out there.

When you're bored, you get creative.

Ninety percent of my ideas come to me either when I'm reading or watching a show.

It's a blessing to stay a child all your life - pretend to be this and that. And get paid for it.

To me, sci-fi has the most amazing style.

It is so easy now to never get bored because we have our phones with us all the time and we are always looking at stuff. I think when we get bored we are the most creative.

Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.

I love reading. I spend a huge amount of time travelling on planes and have always got a book on the go.

My mind is like a theme park, because it's fun and there's lots of cool stuff and you can take rides.

My dad put me in a theater group camp at Santa Monica Playhouse when I was, like, six, and then I started to realize I really liked it when I was 11 or 12; it was nice to just escape.

I draw, paint, crochet, sew, embroider - anything productive I can do with my hands while watching Netflix.

Willy Wonka had his chocolate factory; I have my Fear & Fancy Parlor.

Much like every artist or every creator, I got into comics as a kid, and the most important thing was the 'bang zoom' of it. As many explosions as possible.

When I was very young, even before I went to what you call elementary school, I used to read and watch Japanese comic books and anime all the time. These were the seeds of my future.

I've just always liked monsters, since I was a little kid. It was always the thing I found interesting. It's always what I wanted to draw; it's always what I wanted to read, and so, yeah, I don't know. It's a good question for a therapist, why I like monsters. But I tend to not question it. It's what pays the bills, so that's kind of nice.

I wish sometimes I had a passion for hats and cheese and I could do a fun show about putting hats on cheese.

I don't like anything too heavy. Something I can read, you know, lying in bed that takes me to different world.

That's what I love about movies and TV: You can go anywhere any time and be whoever you want.

I feel that entertainment happens when fact and fiction is balanced.