A biography for Edgar Wrighthasn’t been written yet.
“The worst thing you can do after a test screening is slash it for the lowest common denominator.”
“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 grew up on Marvel and, like, '2000 AD.'”
“Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.”
“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.”
“The making of documentaries for 'Humanoids From The Deep,' 'Galaxy Of Terror' and 'Forbidden World' are absolutely fascinating.”
“Sometimes, some things have to settle, and you have to think about the intention of it.”
“I use music to focus, like an internal motor.”
“We need to make more original movies, and audiences would do well to support original movies for the future of the medium.”
“I tire of franchises, remakes, and endless sequels.”
“The idea of fighting your new girlfriend's ex-lovers, 'Street Fighter' style, is the ultimate geek wish-fulfilment.”
“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.”
“It's interesting that some people reading the comics see Scott Pilgrim as a blank slate in that they like to imagine themselves as Scott Pilgrim, so it's interesting that there are two kind of schools of thought about the character. One is, like, Scott Pilgrim is awesome. The second is Scott Pilgrim believes himself to be awesome.”
“I grew up on 'Battle of the Planets.'”
“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 you write something, at first you might feel very defensive and protective of every single thing, but after a while, you just see what works and what doesn't. Sometimes you do test screenings, and an audience tells you that, or sometimes you eventually just go, 'Let's cut the joke out.'”
“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.”
“My favorite film of all time is 'Raising Arizona.' I watched it again as soon as it was over. I had it on VHS, rented it, and I watched it and said, 'I want to watch that again, right now.' I think I did the same with something like 'Goodfellas,' which is a completely different genre.”
“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?'”
“'The Driver' wasn't commercially successful at the time, but when I was a teenager, I had no knowledge of that.”