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

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" I find just in terms of free time I'm always envious of people I know who... listen to music, watch films, play games, read books. I have to pick. And I find frequently that if I've got Sophie's Choice, I'll try to keep up with music and keep up with films. So my book reading and comic reading and game playing is terrible and infrequent. "

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

" I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience. "

" Not everybody fantasizes about robbing a bank, but I think most people have that fantasy of being in a high speed chase. "

" 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 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.' "

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

" When you're struggling to get a feature film off the ground, there's no big overarching tenure plan or anything like that. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Television was essentially my college. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If you have ever driven around London and seen the amount of one way systems... they basically rubbed out all car chase crime. In fact, if you get bank robberies in the U.K., they're using scooters. "

" The man-child in American comedies is always glorified; they never really show the darker side. "

" 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.' "

" Maybe directors who are more interested in realism and naturalism come from cities, where they see things on their doorstep every day. But growing up as a kid in a very pretty but ever-so-slightly boring town, where not a great deal happened, encouraged me to be more escapist, more imaginative, and more of a daydreamer. "

" 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. "

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

" There are lots of films I wish stopped at installment number one. I like 'Back to the Future Part II' and 'Part III' enough, but I still like the ending of the first one better. "

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

" 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. "

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