Edgar Wright quote: "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."

If you go back to your home town or you're reunited with school friends, its always slightly bit...
EDGAR WRIGHT

I think where the criticism of videogames come from is where videogames are just Xeroxes of films, a...
EDGAR WRIGHT

For 120 minutes, 'Birdman' floats from comedy to surrealism to high drama to quiet brillianc...
EDGAR WRIGHT

I definitely went through a period when I was a teenager when every girl was 'The One' and e...
EDGAR WRIGHT

I'd rather try and cram in another two gags than leave a pause to say, 'Hey, wasn't that...
EDGAR WRIGHT

Car chases are as painstaking to make as they are fun to watch. They take a lot of time, and you hav...
EDGAR WRIGHT

There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulato...
EDGAR WRIGHT

The idea of fighting your new girlfriend's ex-lovers, 'Street Fighter' style, is the ult...
EDGAR WRIGHT

Between the ages of 18 and 20, I made three hour-long films. One was a superhero film called 'Ca...
EDGAR WRIGHT

I use music to focus, like an internal motor.
EDGAR WRIGHT

When I went to college, I discovered the Sega console, and 'Sonic the Hedgehog' became very ...
EDGAR WRIGHT

Sometimes, some things have to settle, and you have to think about the intention of it.
EDGAR WRIGHT

I'm very happy with my life and career, but I do find myself having serious attacks of nostalgia...
EDGAR WRIGHT

I think you write the film that you want to see, and you try and do it honestly, and you can't c...
EDGAR WRIGHT

I've always been fascinated by horror films and genre films. And horror films harbored a fascina...
EDGAR WRIGHT

Not everybody fantasizes about robbing a bank, but I think most people have that fantasy of being in...
EDGAR WRIGHT

We were shooting 'Hot Fuzz' in my hometown of Wells, Somerset, and I remember looking at the...
EDGAR WRIGHT

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

We need to make more original movies, and audiences would do well to support original movies for the...
EDGAR WRIGHT

When I was at school, I used to end every school day with fountain pen ink all over my hands and fac...
EDGAR WRIGHT

Maybe directors who are more interested in realism and naturalism come from cities, where they see t...
EDGAR WRIGHT

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

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

It's interesting that some people reading the comics see Scott Pilgrim as a blank slate in that ...
EDGAR WRIGHT

In a lot of action films, a lot of guys are driving muscle cars or vintage cars, whereas in reality,...
EDGAR WRIGHT

Every time I watch a Clint Eastwood film, I'm in touch with my feminine side, I've developed...
EDGAR WRIGHT

My parents used to talk about Sergio Leone films a lot. And I got really into them. I love Clint Eas...
EDGAR WRIGHT

What 'Shaun of the Dead' and 'Hot Fuzz' and 'World's End' do is smuggle ...
EDGAR WRIGHT

I just remember watching 'Brass Eye' and being so utterly blown away by the scope of it and ...
EDGAR WRIGHT

I used to stay up all night playing 'Resident Evil 2,' and it wouldn't stop until the su...
EDGAR WRIGHT

By the time I got to Bournemouth Art College, I'd been so inspired by Sam Raimi and Robert Rodri...
EDGAR WRIGHT

Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.
EDGAR WRIGHT

A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind...
EDGAR WRIGHT

There are lots of films I wish stopped at installment number one. I like 'Back to the Future Par...
EDGAR WRIGHT

Mel Brooks is an interesting one because he started out making films about stuff that he was totally...
EDGAR WRIGHT

The first TV show I worked on was with the guys from 'Little Britian,' Matt Lucas and David ...
EDGAR WRIGHT

I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's D...
EDGAR WRIGHT

Comics have years to explain this stuff, and in a movie, you have to focus on one thing. So it's...
EDGAR WRIGHT

'Scott Pilgrim' is something that was a little bit more difficult to put in one box. But, to...
EDGAR WRIGHT

I think, 'Scott Pilgrim,' it was something where the general audience didn't necessarily...
EDGAR WRIGHT

I know it's become an ongoing thing about whether videogames are art, and I think there's pl...
EDGAR WRIGHT

I would say 'American Werewolf in London' is like an unconventional buddy movie: even if the...
EDGAR WRIGHT

I always liked movies like 'American Graffiti' and 'Gregory's Girl.' 'Gregor...
EDGAR WRIGHT

There are plenty of movies that you need to chew on a bit. Movies that you return to and see somethi...
EDGAR WRIGHT

If you ever watch police chases on, like, helicopter cams, they very quickly become nightmarish when...
EDGAR WRIGHT

I'd like to do some things over again. I never want to repeat anything that went well, though - ...
EDGAR WRIGHT

I tire of franchises, remakes, and endless sequels.
EDGAR WRIGHT

When I was younger, I used to love Tim Burton's 'Batman.' I was, like, 15, and even then...
EDGAR WRIGHT

When you write something, at first you might feel very defensive and protective of every single thin...
EDGAR WRIGHT

My favorite film of all time is 'Raising Arizona.' I watched it again as soon as it was over...
EDGAR WRIGHT

I am always watching old films and trying to fill gaps in my knowledge.
EDGAR WRIGHT

I find just in terms of free time I'm always envious of people I know who... listen to music, wa...
EDGAR WRIGHT

We got offers to make sequels to both 'Shaun of the Dead' and 'Hot Fuzz,' and they n...
EDGAR WRIGHT

When you're doing a car chase movie, you're sitting in car waiting for places or grips or st...
EDGAR WRIGHT

I think the premise of somebody trying to recreate a night from their teenage years stuck with me as...
EDGAR WRIGHT

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

When you're struggling to get a feature film off the ground, there's no big overarching tenu...
EDGAR WRIGHT

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

I remember when we did 'Shaun of the Dead,' and when we were trying to get it off the ground...
EDGAR WRIGHT

Occasionally, you'll get a 'District 9,' a film that is politically charged, but there i...
EDGAR WRIGHT

Critics should think about how the opening weekend audience might want to discover some surprises fo...
EDGAR WRIGHT

When I was a kid, I just figured we'd be living on the moon by the year 2000.
EDGAR WRIGHT

All of my films have been very dialogue-heavy, and that's great. It always makes it more of a ch...
EDGAR WRIGHT

'Don't Look Now' is a masterpiece. I think it's the best-edited movie of all time. I...
EDGAR WRIGHT

You get some directors, and I can never understand it - there's a thing they call the 'video...
EDGAR WRIGHT

Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like '...
EDGAR WRIGHT

I was at art school that had quite a celebrated film course as well. I tried for that film course wh...
EDGAR WRIGHT

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

You cannot put 50 years of the Marvel universe into a movie. It's impossible.
EDGAR WRIGHT

I'm very happy with the response for everything I've done, but, you know, sometimes you get ...
EDGAR WRIGHT

I grew up on 'Battle of the Planets.'
EDGAR WRIGHT

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

One of the reasons for me that there's no 'Spaced 3' is that I don't think you can p...
EDGAR WRIGHT

The worst thing you can do after a test screening is slash it for the lowest common denominator.
EDGAR WRIGHT

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
EDGAR DEGAS

But when I played Woodstock, I'll never forget that moment looking out over the hundreds of thou...
EDGAR WINTER

It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in on...
EDGAR DEGAS

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.
EDGAR SALTUS

I had to understand the whole bounty hunting thing, because we don't have that in Venezuela. Not...
EDGAR RAMIREZ

Boxing, in the most general terms, is a poor man's sport. All you have is your hands to make a l...
EDGAR RAMIREZ

In boxing, there are no bad guys or good guys. Just people trying to make a living and trying to liv...
EDGAR RAMIREZ

Duran is a mythological figure in Latin America. He grew up in a time of turbulence because Panama w...
EDGAR RAMIREZ

I majored in political communications, so I intended to be a diplomat.
EDGAR RAMIREZ

I'm acting for the same reasons I wanted to become a diplomat. I've thought about it a lot a...
EDGAR RAMIREZ

I look for roles that allow me to immerse in different worlds, immerse in worlds that are different ...
EDGAR RAMIREZ

Boxing combines, in perfect proportion, strength, speed, and endurance. Normally, most sports are ei...
EDGAR RAMIREZ

You get to a new school, and you're the new guy, or you're the foreigner, or you're the ...
EDGAR RAMIREZ

Bodhisattva is enlightened in the Buddhist philosophy, religion, tradition. He's enlightened. It...
EDGAR RAMIREZ

In order to understand the mindset of a boxer, I needed to become a boxer myself.
EDGAR RAMIREZ

I think that, in the end, the military behavior and intelligence services are not very different fro...
EDGAR RAMIREZ

I'm definitely interested in exploring human contradictions. Contradictions are what make us hum...
EDGAR RAMIREZ

I'm very physical. I love to work out; I'm very athletic. It's a great therapy, not only...
EDGAR RAMIREZ

Love is also a very violent thing. Totally violent. Suddenly, you are, like, at this party your frie...
EDGAR RAMIREZ

I think there's no creative process that goes without injuries and scratches and punches. You ge...
EDGAR RAMIREZ

I'm restless. I'm all the time here and there and trying to get myself busy and creative. It...
EDGAR RAMIREZ

I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
EDGAR RAMIREZ

Who said that being Latino is to be a stereotype? Characters are stereotypes when making plans or wi...
EDGAR RAMIREZ

I believe in the will. I believe in discipline. I believe in the organization. I believe in the rigo...
EDGAR RAMIREZ

War is a tragedy. It's not pretty, and in my opinion, there are no winners. Everybody's a vi...
EDGAR RAMIREZ

Boxing is all about how cool and controlled and clear your mind is. Violence only gets in the way of...
EDGAR RAMIREZ

Everything goes in waves. Evolution goes in waves. The ocean goes in waves. Energy goes in waves. So...
EDGAR RAMIREZ

I come from Venezuela, from the independent film arena, and you work with one camera.
EDGAR RAMIREZ

An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.
EDGAR QUINET

Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinite...
EDGAR QUINET

It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy ...
EDGAR QUINET

The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear with...
EDGAR QUINET

Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, b...
EDGAR QUINET

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.
EDGAR QUINET

I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so fo...
EDGAR MITCHELL

We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on th...
EDGAR MITCHELL

At the end of October 4 in 1957, when I was coming back from sea duty in the South Pacific, Sputnik ...
EDGAR MITCHELL

Our mission on Apollo 14 was to be the first to do science on the moon, so we had to be careful abou...
EDGAR MITCHELL

My wife tells me I am a male chauvinist pig and I have to sort of admit it. In my office and in my h...
EDGAR MITCHELL

We need a community of nations capable of space flight because we all have to be off this planet som...
EDGAR MITCHELL

I theorize that there is a spectrum of consciousness available to human beings. At one end is materi...
EDGAR MITCHELL

I don't think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That's ...
EDGAR MITCHELL

We should be ready to reach out beyond our planet and beyond our solar system to find out what is re...
EDGAR MITCHELL

I happen to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet, and ...
EDGAR MITCHELL

I can tell you I'm not exactly sure why I teach. I think a lot of it is just it's the sense ...
EDGAR MEYER

I like writing for individuals with really rich musical personalities.
EDGAR MEYER

I try to just be the person I am, with a lot of sensitivity to the genre in which I'm playing.
EDGAR MEYER

When I was younger, I had a much better connection between words and music. Somewhere along the way,...
EDGAR MEYER

In all honesty, titles are an embarrassment to me.
EDGAR MEYER

I take the family shopping round. The markets of the world.
EDGAR GUEST

I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.
EDGAR GUEST

For economist the real world is often a special case.
EDGAR FIEDLER

He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.
EDGAR FIEDLER

The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
EDGAR FIEDLER

If you have to forecast, forecast often.
EDGAR FIEDLER

What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and i...
EDGAR DEGAS

One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an ...
EDGAR DEGAS

Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.
EDGAR DEGAS

In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
EDGAR DEGAS

No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the gre...
EDGAR DEGAS

For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much - if he lives and u...
EDGAR CAYCE

You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to...
EDGAR CAYCE

It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds.
EDGAR CAYCE

Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
EDGAR CAYCE

There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!
EDGAR CAYCE

I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.
EDGAR BERGEN

Hey kid, do you want to come and talk to Charlie?
EDGAR BERGEN

So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for...
EDGAR BERGEN

OK, magic boy, let's see who you really are.
EDGAR BERGEN

But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?
EDGAR BERGEN

After 13 years of life on the half shell in Hollywood, I have made a trip where I wasn't a touri...
EDGAR BERGEN

I've never told you the story of Alice in Wonderland, have I?
EDGAR BERGEN

Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot.
EDGAR BERGEN

You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.
EDGAR BERGEN

Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or ...
EDGAR BERGEN

Well, a friend in need is a friend indeed.
EDGAR BERGEN

No organization is stronger than the quality of its leadership, or ever extends its constituency far...
EDGAR POWELL

There's a bootleg album that was recorded when I was 14 or 15, a compilation of things live at d...
EDGAR WINTER

I long for the slightest evidence of it that doesn’t require me to relinquish reason, because a na...
EDGAR CANTERO

The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.
EDGAR SHOAFF

Justice may be blind, but she has very sophisticated listening devices.
EDGAR ARGO

Philosophy may be dodged, eloquence cannot.
EDGAR QUINET

There is no such thing as Intelligence; one has intelligence of this or that. One must have intellig...
EDGAR DEGAS

Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
EDGAR CAYCE

At some glad moment was it nature's choice to dower a scrap of sunset with a voice?
EDGAR FAWCETT

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
EDGAR QUINET

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
EDGAR DEGAS

What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and i...
EDGAR DEGAS

When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself.
EDGAR CAYCE

This...is the surer, safer, saner way of meditation. For, when the mind is absent from the body it i...
EDGAR CAYCE

In any influence, will, a self, the ego, the I AM is the greater force to be dealt with, but as numb...
EDGAR CAYCE

I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatu...
EDGAR QUINET

What we share with another ceases to be our own.
EDGAR QUINET

Today as in the time of Pliny and Columella, the hyacinth flourishes in Wales, the periwinkle in Ill...
EDGAR QUINET

You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to som...
EDGAR CAYCE

For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much -- if he lives and ...
EDGAR CAYCE

It can be a fascinating game, noticing how any person with vitality and vigor will have a little spl...
EDGAR CAYCE

A plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm.
EDGAR SALTUS

One of the curious things about censorship is that no one seems to want it for himself. We want cens...
EDGAR DALE

Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it.
EDGAR DEGAS

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things
EDGAR DEGAS

What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, be...
EDGAR QUINET

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
EDGAR BERGEN

I was always accused of being too stiff. In 1974, when I ran my first primary race for state rep, I ...
JIM EDGAR

Death may simply be an alteration in consciousness, a transition for continued life in a nonmaterial...
EDGAR MITCHELL

You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with t...
EDGAR MITCHELL

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
EDGAR DEGAS

For me, no ideological or political conviction would justify the sacrifice of a human life. For me, ...
EDGAR RAMIREZ

I think The Doors are one of the classic groups, and I think we're all tempted to feel like the ...
EDGAR WINTER

Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.
EDGAR FIEDLER

Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.
EDGAR WINTER

Being authentic can be a good thing in that often people who are fixated on that are also fixated on...
EDGAR MEYER

One of the pillars of 'Cyrano' is recreating a love story and, like any archetype, these gre...
EDGAR RAMIREZ

It really was a tale of two halves. We changed ourselves up tactically changed our shape on the fiel...
ASHLEY EDGAR

There's a lot of emotion in senior night. It was in the way the seniors talked to the team. We were ...
ASHLEY EDGAR

It was dramatic because of all the mud. We knew it was past the goalie, we knew it was going in, but...
ASHLEY EDGAR

She's everything you can't put on a stat sheet. I'd rather have a Sarah than girls who have that luc...
ASHLEY EDGAR

The college game has become run and gun, push forward and head it in. And she's got all the tools fo...
ASHLEY EDGAR

For so many years, it seems like things get decided on the last week.
ASHLEY EDGAR

They always have a good team. We've played them a number of times over the years and it's always bee...
ASHLEY EDGAR

A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your me...
EDGAR DEGAS

I've never lived in an English-speaking country, ever, but I lived in Austria. So, my second lan...
EDGAR RAMIREZ

I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.
EDGAR RAMIREZ

From the first moment that I can remember, I had identified myself as a bass player and it had every...
EDGAR MEYER

America has been a beacon of hope for vulnerable people throughout the world.
JIM EDGAR

The best experience that we have on Earth is the fact that we have scientific stations, weathering o...
EDGAR MITCHELL

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.

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Edgar Wright

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.

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