Edgar Wright Quotes

"In 'Shaun of the Dead,' it's not Shaun's fault that there's a zombie apocalypse - he just has to get through the day."

"What 'Shaun of the Dead' and 'Hot Fuzz' and 'World's End' do is smuggle a different movie under the guise of a zombie movie or a cop or alien invasion movie. Even though they all have action and carnage, they are really films about growing up and taking responsibility."

"If you go back to your home town or you're reunited with school friends, its always slightly bittersweet because as much as there's nice things in terms of seeing them again, the town has changed without you, and you're no longer a part of it."

"Whenever I'm writing a script, I'm scoring myself by playing the right kind of music."

"'Scott Pilgrim' is something that was a little bit more difficult to put in one box. But, to me, that's not necessarily a bad thing about the movie."

"I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complacent."

"We need to make more original movies, and audiences would do well to support original movies for the future of the medium."

"I know it's become an ongoing thing about whether videogames are art, and I think there's plenty of examples of things that use the form in a fascinating way. Things that are more surreal or artistic, like 'Katamari Damacy' or 'Vib-Ribbon.'"

"I would say 'American Werewolf in London' is like an unconventional buddy movie: even if the buddy dies 20 minutes in, he still remains throughout the picture, and their partnership is one of the best things in the movie."

"The sci-fi movies I grew up with, the metaphor was very rich, and they used to really mean something: David Cronenberg's films, or John Carpenter's films, or the Phil Kaufman and Don Segel versions of 'Invasion Of The Body Snatchers,' or George Romero's early zombie films."

"If you're on a road trip, you need driving music."

"When I was at school, I used to end every school day with fountain pen ink all over my hands and face and down my shirt."

"I've always been fascinated by horror films and genre films. And horror films harbored a fascination for me and always have been something I've wanted to watch and wanted to make."

"I definitely went through a period when I was a teenager when every girl was 'The One' and every break-up was the 'Worst Thing That Had Ever Happened.'"

"When I went to college, I discovered the Sega console, and 'Sonic the Hedgehog' became very dear to me."

"I used to stay up all night playing 'Resident Evil 2,' and it wouldn't stop until the sun came up. Then I'd walk outside at dawn's first light, looking at the empty streets of London, and it was like life imitating art. It felt like I'd stepped into an actual zombie apocalypse."

"I tire of franchises, remakes, and endless sequels."

"Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision."

"For 120 minutes, 'Birdman' floats from comedy to surrealism to high drama to quiet brilliance. I felt so inspired by watching this movie. It reaches for the sky and never comes back down to earth."

"I use music to focus, like an internal motor."

"Between the ages of 18 and 20, I made three hour-long films. One was a superhero film called 'Carbolic Soap.' One was a cop film called 'Dead Right.' And the other was called 'A Fistful Of Fingers.'"

"My parents used to talk about Sergio Leone films a lot. And I got really into them. I love Clint Eastwood. I love the camera angles. I love the music."

"By the time I got to Bournemouth Art College, I'd been so inspired by Sam Raimi and Robert Rodriguez and their tiny, no-budget films that I decided to do a feature-length version of 'Fistful Of Fingers.'"

"I think the premise of somebody trying to recreate a night from their teenage years stuck with me as something potentially very tragically comic."

"I'd like to do some things over again. I never want to repeat anything that went well, though - I just want to do better at slightly different things."

"I guess a lot of comic-book adaptations strive for realism. Christopher Nolan is making Batman seem very real and very serious."

"It's funny: sometimes with 'Spaced,' people would try and read too much into something I'd done, with the references meaning something more than they do."

"When you're doing a car chase movie, you're sitting in car waiting for places or grips or stuff for quite a while."

"Car chases are as painstaking to make as they are fun to watch. They take a lot of time, and you have to keep the energy up."

"If you ever watch police chases on, like, helicopter cams, they very quickly become nightmarish when you start to see the police coming in from the edge of the frame. I always find that terrifying."