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" Some actors don't even read the stage directions at all. "

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

" There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.' "

" I had a chance to do 'Ant-Man' in 2011. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Television was essentially my college. "

" 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. "

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

" I love horror, sci-fi and action, or I wouldn't make these kinds of movies, but those designations are Trojan horses to make these personal comedies. "

" You cannot put 50 years of the Marvel universe into a movie. It's impossible. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" I just remember watching 'Brass Eye' and being so utterly blown away by the scope of it and how much it managed to cram into an episode. "

" Sometimes, some things have to settle, and you have to think about the intention of it. "

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

" I was at art school that had quite a celebrated film course as well. I tried for that film course when I was 18, but they said I was too young. I tried this audio and visual design course instead. Two years later, I reapplied for that higher course, but they said I was still too young and to try in five years. "

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

" Occasionally, you'll get a 'District 9,' a film that is politically charged, but there is nothing going on beneath the surface with a lot of horror films. They are not about anything. "

" 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. "

" In a lot of action films, a lot of guys are driving muscle cars or vintage cars, whereas in reality, a lot of getaway drivers would actually choose, like, commuter cars and find a way to blend into freeway traffic as quickly as possible. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I was never a DC kid - I went through a phase from, like, 11 to 17 where I would try to buy as many Marvel titles as possible. And '2000 AD' was kind of the sort of sci-fi/punk of British comics. "

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

" 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.' "

" There are plenty of movies that you need to chew on a bit. Movies that you return to and see something different in the second time around. "

" 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. "

" Some people are brilliant on the first take, some people are brilliant on the fourth take, and when you are doing a group scene, you kind of have to figure that out. "