I first saw Walter Hill's second film, 'The Driver,' as a teenager, late at night on the BBC, quite possibly sitting too… — Edgar Wright Copy Share Image
My favorite film of all time is 'Raising Arizona.' I watched it again as soon as it was over. I had it… — Edgar Wright Copy Share Image
In a weird way, riffing on genres is kind of a reaction to formula. When you watch so much of the programmers… — Edgar Wright Copy Share Image
I was at art school that had quite a celebrated film course as well. I tried for that film course when I… — Edgar Wright Copy Share Image
Hot Fuzz in a strange way, for me, summons up the spirit of watching R-rated films that I was too young to… — Edgar Wright Copy Share Image
All of my films have been very dialogue-heavy, and that's great. It always makes it more of a challenge to market in… — Edgar Wright Copy Share Image
By the time I got to Bournemouth Art College, I'd been so inspired by Sam Raimi and Robert Rodriguez and their tiny,… — Edgar Wright Copy Share Image
When we made 'Shaun of the Dead,' it was our first feature, and we were just lucky to make a film, full… — Edgar Wright Copy Share Image
I am always watching old films and trying to fill gaps in my knowledge. — Edgar Wright Copy Share Image
You get some directors, and I can never understand it - there's a thing they call the 'video village' where all the… — Edgar Wright Copy Share Image
When I am not working, I try to watch more than one film a day if I can. — Edgar Wright Copy Share Image
I like watching films that can play in any language because they're essentially silent. — Edgar Wright Copy Share Image
Usually if I find a film that's challenging, that I'm intrigued by, I want to watch it again knowing what the ending… — Edgar Wright Copy Share Image
It's funny, my agent came up to us and said, "That line, when Nicholas says, 'I'm gonna bust this thing wide open,'… — Edgar Wright Copy Share Image
Usually in TV... A TV director could be anything from a main grip to just a glorified cameraman, and sometimes a director… — Edgar Wright Copy Share Image
When you're struggling to get a feature film off the ground, there's no big overarching tenure plan or anything like that. — Edgar Wright Copy Share Image
Between the ages of 18 and 20, I made three hour-long films. One was a superhero film called 'Carbolic Soap.' One was… — Edgar Wright Copy Share Image
The sci-fi movies I grew up with, the metaphor was very rich, and they used to really mean something: David Cronenberg's films,… — Edgar Wright Copy Share Image
Mel Brooks is an interesting one because he started out making films about stuff that he was totally affectionate about, like musicals,… — Edgar Wright Copy Share Image
I think you write the film that you want to see, and you try and do it honestly, and you can't control… — Edgar Wright Copy Share Image
Occasionally, you'll get a 'District 9,' a film that is politically charged, but there is nothing going on beneath the surface with… — Edgar Wright Copy Share Image
What 'Shaun of the Dead' and 'Hot Fuzz' and 'World's End' do is smuggle a different movie under the guise of a… — Edgar Wright Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by horror films and genre films. And horror films harbored a fascination for me and always have been… — Edgar Wright Copy Share Image
I think when I was getting into directing, or wanting to be a director, when I was a teenager, the two films… — Edgar Wright Copy Share Image
You cannot put 50 years of the Marvel universe into a movie. It's impossible. — Edgar Wright Copy Share Image
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… — Edgar Wright Copy Share Image
I first saw Walter Hill's second film, 'The Driver,' as a teenager, late at night on the BBC, quite possibly sitting too close to… — Edgar Wright Copy Share Image
A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The… — Edgar Wright Copy Share Image
If you have ever driven around London and seen the amount of one way systems... they basically rubbed out all car chase crime. In… — Edgar Wright Copy Share Image
Sometimes, some things have to settle, and you have to think about the intention of it. — Edgar Wright Copy Share Image
Now I'm back in LA, it's high time to finish a little something I've been working on... — Edgar Wright Copy Share Image
I'd rather try and cram in another two gags than leave a pause to say, 'Hey, wasn't that bit funny?' — Edgar Wright Copy Share Image
I have this theory about science fiction movies in that, when the space race sort of died, a lot of people sort of lost… — Edgar Wright Copy Share Image
Near my apartment in London, a lot of the pubs kind of look identical, which is very strange. — Edgar Wright Copy Share Image
If you ever watch police chases on, like, helicopter cams, they very quickly become nightmarish when you start to see the police coming in… — Edgar Wright Copy Share Image
