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" I grew up on 'Battle of the Planets.' "

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" Mel Brooks is an interesting one because he started out making films about stuff that he was totally affectionate about, like musicals, westerns, horror films, Hitchcock films. And then, as they get further on, and you get to 'Spaceballs,' then it's just kind of contrived. "

" Television was essentially my college. "

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

" 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. "

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

" All of my films have been very dialogue-heavy, and that's great. It always makes it more of a challenge to market in other countries. "

" The idea of fighting your new girlfriend's ex-lovers, 'Street Fighter' style, is the ultimate geek wish-fulfilment. "

" 'The Driver' wasn't commercially successful at the time, but when I was a teenager, I had no knowledge of that. "

" I loved the idea of somebody literally fighting for love. "

" You get some directors, and I can never understand it - there's a thing they call the 'video village' where all the monitors are, and you've probably seen it on set visits - I hate that! I never, ever like sitting in video village. I get either my own monitor or a hand held monitor, and I stand right by the camera. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 think where the criticism of videogames come from is where videogames are just Xeroxes of films, and when you get a film adaptation of that game, you've just Xeroxed something twice. I think that's where a lot of the criticism comes from - there are ultra-violent games that are already based on a million films. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" Tony Scott, Walter Hill, Michael Mann - I'm a big action fan, full stop. And even though Michael Mann is the more celebrated film-maker than Tony Scott, I love them both in different ways. "

" 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. "

" Critics should think about how the opening weekend audience might want to discover some surprises for themselves. "

" The worst thing you can do after a test screening is slash it for the lowest common denominator. "

" I think you write the film that you want to see, and you try and do it honestly, and you can't control people's responses, really. "

" I'd rather try and cram in another two gags than leave a pause to say, 'Hey, wasn't that bit funny?' "

" 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.' "

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

" The first TV show I worked on was with the guys from 'Little Britian,' Matt Lucas and David Walliams, who did a show in 1995 I directed, 'Mash and Peas.' "

" My favorite film of all time is 'Raising Arizona.' I watched it again as soon as it was over. I had it on VHS, rented it, and I watched it and said, 'I want to watch that again, right now.' I think I did the same with something like 'Goodfellas,' which is a completely different genre. "

" 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. "

" Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like 'Fawlty Towers,' obviously, and 'Blackadder' were pretty traditionally shot. And then there were the ones that start to break the mold or be really ambitious. The ones that spring particularly to mind would be 'The Young Ones.' "

" I have this theory about science fiction movies in that, when the space race sort of died, a lot of people sort of lost hope. "

" Usually in TV... A TV director could be anything from a main grip to just a glorified cameraman, and sometimes a director can be the person who is hired last. It's very much a producer's medium. "