Written Interview: Drew Goddard (“The Cabin in the Woods”)

Via Slashfilm an interview with Drew Goddard, co-writer and director of The Cabin in the Woods which came out this week on DVD:

It must be nice to be able to talk about the film now, and also be at a point where people are seeing it for the second time. There are details in the movie that plainly seem designed for a second viewing. Was creating rewatchability a prime concern?

Truth is, I don’t like movies that are only good once, I tend to dismiss them. I like movies that get better the more you watch them. No one has to watch this movie more goddamn times than me, and I get bored very easily. So I, or we, tried to enhance that aspect. And not on just a detail level, but on a story level. We were very conscious of the question “what does it all mean?” It’s important that it becomes “what does it mean?” rather than “what happens?”

Joss and I said, “let’s pretend that we’re writing this for ourselves.” What would we want to see, and what movies and tendencies do we know. If you worry too much about what an audience wants or knows, you’re going to be wrong. You just have to tell it the way you can, and the way you’d want to see it.

For the rest of the interview, go here.