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" 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.' "

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" 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. "

Edgar Wright

Never

Better

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I love the Zucker brothers' films - 'Airplane!,' 'Top Secret' and 'Police Squad!' - are my formative experiences. "

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

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

" Usually if I find a film that's challenging, that I'm intrigued by, I want to watch it again knowing what the ending is. I found that with something like 'The Godfather Part II.' I think it took me three watches to fully experience it in the way it was intended. "

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

" I think, 'Scott Pilgrim,' it was something where the general audience didn't necessarily understand straight away what it was. "

" 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.' "

Edgar Wright

Little

TV Show

" When I did 'Hot Fuzz,' I tried to get Barbara Steele in the movie, but I was told she had retired. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" It's a very rare and fortunate position to be able to make movies with two of your best friends who happen to be really amazing actors and writers. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When I went to college, I discovered the Sega console, and 'Sonic the Hedgehog' became very dear to me. "

Edgar Wright

College

Console

" I use music to focus, like an internal motor. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" '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

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

Edgar Wright

Marvel

Grew

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

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

" 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. "

" What 'Shaun of the Dead' and 'Hot Fuzz' and 'World's End' do is smuggle a different movie under the guise of a zombie movie or a cop or alien invasion movie. Even though they all have action and carnage, they are really films about growing up and taking responsibility. "