Edgar Wright Quotes

#1. The movies I respond to are by guys like the Coen brothers and Edgar Wright, where it's hard to fit them into any one box.

Drew Goddard

#2. Peter Chelsom and Edgar Wright are totally different directors and worlds apart, but both really accomplished directors who are certain of how they want to make a film.

Rosamund Pike

#3. I saw 'Tintin' in Europe - it is 'Indiana Jones' on steroids. Unbelievable. What a fantastic movie. Steven Spielberg, you rock the house. And working with those young English guys like Edgar Wright, and also Peter Jackson; what a great combination.

Harvey Weinstein

#4. Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

G.K. Chesterton

#5. The experience of returning to the blank page and having nothing in the drawer was intensely painful. I just thought, I never want that to happen again.

Edgar Wright

#6. There are passions that it is not for man to choose.

Nikolai Gogol

#7. It's funny, my agent came up to us and said, "That line, when Nicholas says, 'I'm gonna bust this thing wide open,' what film's that from?" I said, "I think it's from every film." It's just like you get into that kind of mode of generic dialogue, it's fun to do.

Edgar Wright

#8. Inner silence is not just the absence of thoughts. No! Silence is the blossoming of our indomitable inner will. Silence is our inner wisdom-light.

Sri Chinmoy

#9. I don't want to get them in trouble for crimes in the early '90s - but there was usually like one pub that was the soft touch in terms of you could get served under 18, and that pub was The Rose and Crown.

Edgar Wright

#10. The editing process, to use a slightly grim analogy, is like the slow suffocation of lots of babies. It's like, which finger do you want to cut off first?

Edgar Wright

#11. We feel that there are so many kids who need adopting. We thought we'd do it after having a couple of our own, but we just changed our mind.

Hugh Jackman

#12. Near my apartment in London, a lot of the pubs kind of look identical, which is very strange.

Edgar Wright

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

Edgar Wright

#14. It was to him a very strange and perplexing place, where people wore fine clothes and had hard hearts.

Willa Cather

#15. Just be glad you're not getting all the government you're paying for

Will Rogers

#16. The literal Greek translation is "school for naked exercise." Which made toweling off the stationary bike even more important.

A. J. Jacobs

#17. The answers are in you, not around you.

Dan Groat

#18. The script and the performances and the style all clicked.

Edgar Wright

#19. When I look into someone's eyes, into their soul, their innermost being, they can see mine in return - the things I had done, the things I was willing to do, the things I was capable of doing.

Jim Butcher

#20. In a weird way, riffing on genres is kind of a reaction to formula. When you watch so much of the programmers and the films that you just think you've seen before, it's kind of going back to the well in terms of trying to conjure up the spirit of what made you excited about films in the first place.

Edgar Wright

#21. I definitely went through a period when I was a teenager when every girl was 'The One' and every break-up was the 'Worst Thing That Had Ever Happened.'

Edgar Wright

#22. My extroversion is a way of managing my introversion.

Carrie Fisher

#23. I'm a big fan; I like all sorts of genres. I do like an occasion to just switch my brain off and enjoy some mindless carnage.

Edgar Wright

#24. I call it Inherent Twice because I am looking forward to seeing it again.

Edgar Wright

#25. I came from another county. I spent 15 years in Wells, but I was treated like an outsider. It was like, "Oh, you're not local."

Edgar Wright

#26. I used to drink a lot of lager when I was younger, but I'm more of a wine drinker now, I guess. I feel daunted looking at full pints.

Edgar Wright

#27. The noblest revenge is to forgive

Thomas Fuller

#28. I've always been fascinated by horror films and genre films. And horror films harbored a fascination for me and always have been something I've wanted to watch and wanted to make.

Edgar Wright

#29. Gentlemen you had my curiosity ... but now you have my attention.

Quentin Tarantino

#30. Everybody always wanted to do something, and here come the guys who always wanted to joyride in a city bus.

Ben H. Winters

#31. Now I'm back in LA, it's high time to finish a little something I've been working on ...

Edgar Wright

#32. When I went to college, I discovered the Sega console, and 'Sonic the Hedgehog' became very dear to me.

Edgar Wright

#33. Everything that I've done so far has had a bigger budget than the last, but I've never ever felt the benefit of the bigger budget because the ideas always exceed the budget.

Edgar Wright

#34. I used to stay up all night playing 'Resident Evil 2,' and it wouldn't stop until the sun came up. Then I'd walk outside at dawn's first light, looking at the empty streets of London, and it was like life imitating art. It felt like I'd stepped into an actual zombie apocalypse.

Edgar Wright

#35. We like to imagine that Shaun is in George Romero's universe, that it's happening at the same time as the Pittsburgh outbreak.

Edgar Wright