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" Even though I didn't write 'Shaun Of The Dead' and 'Hot Fuzz,' I never felt left out of the creative process. "

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" The fight scenes in 'The World's End' have a certain balletic quality to them. "

" I volunteered on a farming community in Israel for two years when I was a teenager. One of the jobs involved clearing out a massive warehouse full of chickens ready for the abattoir. The smell of 40,000 chickens in 45C is awful. "

" I wanted to write rather than do anything else. But 'cause I left school at 15, I didn't know what a noun was, still don't. "

" I'm comedy's forgotten nearly man. "

" I like to go home early, that's my thing. My idea of a pub crawl lasts from midday until 5 P.M., then I can go home, play with my kid, have tea and go to bed. "

" I'm usually up at 6 A.M., even on the weekend. "

" I like to think I'm some savage realist. "

" It's nice to have someone write a couture character for you. "

" I'd be happy doing anything on a film set. "

" I'd like to play the voice of the Iron in the Monopoly movie. "

" I always think I could play a fantastic psychopath. I'd like to play a psycho. With a heart, you know. A caring lunatic. "

" Football and me have never got on. My instinct and love for the harder end of contact had always meant I was perhaps a little too heavy-handed for football. Somehow it left me feeling unfulfilled. "

" If you think about America, it is about getting your backpack on and heading out. "

" I'm not good at meeting people, and I'm not good at small talk. "

" My formative years were all about 'Star Wars' - the first three, not the last crap, obviously. I understood 'Star Trek' but it was too caricatured for me. "

" I would agree 'Paul' is a sci-fi genre movie. And a road movie. "

" I would be happy living on a massive ranch in Montana and not seeing anyone except my friends and family. "

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" There's a difference between watching a film and watching a bit of cinema and enjoying a film as a piece of cinema. "

" Someone once pulled me aside and said it was all right to succeed, and I realised that I knew what failure felt like, but I didn't know what success felt like. I've carried that with me ever since. "

" I'm not going to say I'm not a fan, but I'm a fan of house music, essentially, and kind of indie, and I was always into the kind of sub-pop Seattle Mud Honey and Pearl Jam kind of sound. But my kind of big love was house music ever since I was 15/16, going to raves when I was 15 or 16 years old and not going to school, like a naughty boy. "

" My wife's brother has a little house on a small island in the Baltic Sea, and we go there at Christmas. The 30-minute crossing from the mainland to this island is the most terrifying cruise you'll ever take. They give you a barf bag when you walk on board. "

" One of my biggest disappointments is watching the trailer for the second 'Lord of the Rings' film and having Gandalf in it. Why? You know, he died in the first one, why give it away in the trailer just to try and sell a thousand more seats? It's daft. "

" People are not going to like everything. "

" The zeitgeist is ever-changing. If you try second guess what people want, you'll miss it. "

" People say, 'Oh, you're famous now, so you must go to L.A.' - I don't live in L.A. now - but it's like, why wouldn't you? The weather is amazing, the film industry's there, it's a great quality of life. "

" I think some people see me as being some kind of lovable, bumbling buffoon, and I'm actually quite mouthy and sharp, and that doesn't compute. "

" I fall in love with every film while I'm doing it. I fall in love with the directors, I fall in love with the process. I don't think I could do it otherwise. "

" I love working. I feel guilty about doing nothing; I get bored. "