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" The idea of fighting your new girlfriend's ex-lovers, 'Street Fighter' style, is the ultimate geek wish-fulfilment. "
Edgar Wright
Fighter
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Street
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" 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.' "
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" 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.' "
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" I'm a big fan of films that I grew up on and would watch obsessively, over and over again. If I didn't feel like I got everything on the first watch good, I want to see it again immediately. "
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" 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. "
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" We got offers to make sequels to both 'Shaun of the Dead' and 'Hot Fuzz,' and they never really interested us because we like having these endings where it seems very final but could hint at some kind of future adventure that you'll never see. "
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" 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.' "
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" Not everybody fantasizes about robbing a bank, but I think most people have that fantasy of being in a high speed chase. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" '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. "
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" 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. "
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" I loved the idea of somebody literally fighting for love. "
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" When you're doing a car chase movie, you're sitting in car waiting for places or grips or stuff for quite a while. "
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" Sometimes, some things have to settle, and you have to think about the intention of it. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Film
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" 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. "
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" Whenever I'm writing a script, I'm scoring myself by playing the right kind of music. "
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" Usually, if you read a script by somebody else and there's a dense page of stage directions, people just skip through it or speed read it. "
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" I grew up on 'Battle of the Planets.' "
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" 'RoboCop,' when that came out, was like the best comic book movie ever, and it's not based on a comic book. "
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" Critics should think about how the opening weekend audience might want to discover some surprises for themselves. "
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" 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. "
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" I am always watching old films and trying to fill gaps in my knowledge. "
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" I love the Zucker brothers' films - 'Airplane!,' 'Top Secret' and 'Police Squad!' - are my formative experiences. "
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" 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.' "
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" The worst thing you can do after a test screening is slash it for the lowest common denominator. "
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" 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. "
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