Quotes from Edgar Wright

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

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

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

I'm very happy with the response for everything I've done, but, you know, sometimes you get things like, 'Oh, 'Spaced' Series One wasn't as good as 'Spaced' Series Two.' Or 'Shaun of the Dead' is not as good as 'Spaced,' or, 'Hot Fuzz' is not as good as 'Shaun.' Or, now, 'The World's End' is not 'Shaun of the Dead.'

I think you write the film that you want to see, and you try and do it honestly, and you can't control people's responses, really.

I have this theory about science fiction movies in that, when the space race sort of died, a lot of people sort of lost hope.

Car chases are as painstaking to make as they are fun to watch. They take a lot of time, and you have to keep the energy up.

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.

I was at art school that had quite a celebrated film course as well. I tried for that film course when I was 18, but they said I was too young. I tried this audio and visual design course instead. Two years later, I reapplied for that higher course, but they said I was still too young and to try in five years.

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

I'd rather try and cram in another two gags than leave a pause to say, 'Hey, wasn't that bit funny?'

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.

Between the ages of 18 and 20, I made three hour-long films. One was a superhero film called 'Carbolic Soap.' One was a cop film called 'Dead Right.' And the other was called 'A Fistful Of Fingers.'

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

'Scott Pilgrim' is something that was a little bit more difficult to put in one box. But, to me, that's not necessarily a bad thing about the movie.

Occasionally, you'll get a 'District 9,' a film that is politically charged, but there is nothing going on beneath the surface with a lot of horror films. They are not about anything.

For 120 minutes, 'Birdman' floats from comedy to surrealism to high drama to quiet brilliance. I felt so inspired by watching this movie. It reaches for the sky and never comes back down to earth.

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.

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 grew up on 'Battle of the Planets.'

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.

My parents used to talk about Sergio Leone films a lot. And I got really into them. I love Clint Eastwood. I love the camera angles. I love the music.

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

Critics should think about how the opening weekend audience might want to discover some surprises for themselves.