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" I remember when we did 'Shaun of the Dead,' and when we were trying to get it off the ground in 2001 before we actually made it, a lot of people just didn't want to know. "

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" I always liked movies like 'American Graffiti' and 'Gregory's Girl.' 'Gregory's Girl' is particularly perfect because it really captures that summer holiday bubble of teenage utopia. Even though it's got a happy ending, there's a feeling that these characters may never see each other again. "

Edgar Wright

Holiday

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" We were shooting 'Hot Fuzz' in my hometown of Wells, Somerset, and I remember looking at the dailies and going, 'Wait, there's a Starbucks in the shot. I don't remember that being there!' We had to digitally remove it; the same thing happened with a McDonald's in another scene. I had this sensation of, 'What's going on here? Where am I?' "

" When I am not working, I try to watch more than one film a day if I can. "

" When we made 'Shaun of the Dead,' it was our first feature, and we were just lucky to make a film, full stop. "

" 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. "

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

" Comics have years to explain this stuff, and in a movie, you have to focus on one thing. So it's about kind of streamlining, I think. Some of the most successful origin films actually have a narrower focus. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Edgar Wright

Market

Great

" One of the reasons for me that there's no 'Spaced 3' is that I don't think you can pretend to be 26 for ever. "

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

" When I was younger, I used to love Tim Burton's 'Batman.' I was, like, 15, and even then, I was aware, 'This is really the Joker's film.' It's like, the Joker just takes over, and Batman, you really don't learn too much about him. "

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

" I grew up on Marvel and, like, '2000 AD.' "

Edgar Wright

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Grew

" 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. "

Edgar Wright

Hill

Love

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" When you write something, at first you might feel very defensive and protective of every single thing, but after a while, you just see what works and what doesn't. Sometimes you do test screenings, and an audience tells you that, or sometimes you eventually just go, 'Let's cut the joke out.' "

" 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'm a big believer in keeping the stage directions really tight. "

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

" 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.' "

" 'RoboCop,' when that came out, was like the best comic book movie ever, and it's not based on a comic book. "

Edgar Wright

Best

Out

" '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. "

Edgar Wright

Bad

Box

" Every time I watch a Clint Eastwood film, I'm in touch with my feminine side, I've developed a searing man-crush on Clint Eastwood. "