A biography for Gareth Edwardshasn’t been written yet.
“It's a great Disney tradition, isn't it? For every single character to die in all their movies.”
“I consumed Spielberg movies when I was little.”
“My earliest memory of actually definitely wanting to be a filmmaker was when I got thrown out of class when I was 10 and I was storyboarding a short film I wanted to make with my friend's camera.”
“So when you make a disaster movie that is trying to say something about our world, you reach for images that haunt you.”
“I spent 10 or 15 years doing visual effects and, if I learned anything from that time, it's that you do the best work when you let things go wrong and embrace the happy accidents. Then suddenly it feels fresh and you're somewhere new.”
“But you know, 'Star Wars' is the movie that's affected me the most in my entire life. It's the reason I wanted to become a filmmaker, and you've got this amazing opportunity to play on that field.”
“Some people get really worried about non-actors, but I think you can get brilliant performances out of people.”
“Especially in television, when you do visual effects, what you're predominantly doing is trying to add value to TV shows that otherwise don't have any.”
“I feel like one of the most successful heroines in science-fiction cinema is Sigourney Weaver in 'Aliens' - I love her, and as a guy, no part of my brain thinks of her gender.”
“For ages I thought I'd wasted my career doing visual effects, I wanted to be a filmmaker. And then I've learnt at the end of it all that actually visual effects was probably the best training ground I could have had.”
“I know when I was 9 and 10, I was watching films way beyond that age group, and it's what kids aspire to.”
“I hate love stories, personally. I'm not a fan of them. I absolutely loathe romantic comedies, with a passion, and I really worry when people use the word 'romantic' when they describe the film.”
“I like jumping around perspective. It keeps things alive and makes you realize that your personal perspective on anything is very misleading and it's real hard to get a real sense of anything.”