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" 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. "

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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. "

" 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?' "

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

" 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. "

" Television was essentially my college. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If you're on a road trip, you need driving music. "

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

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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. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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'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. "

" 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. "