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I grew up on 'Battle of the Planets.'
I grew up on Marvel and, like, '2000 AD.'
I use music to focus, like an internal motor.
If you're on a road trip, you need driving music.
I tire of franchises, remakes, and endless sequels.
Some actors don't even read the stage directions at all.
The script and the performances and the style all clicked.
Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.
I'm a big believer in keeping the stage directions really tight.
I am always watching old films and trying to fill gaps in my knowledge.
I call it Inherent Twice because I am looking forward to seeing it again.
You cannot put 50 years of the Marvel universe into a movie. It's impossible.
When I was a kid, I just figured we'd be living on the moon by the year 2000.
Whenever I'm writing a script, I'm scoring myself by playing the right kind of music.
Now I'm back in LA, it's high time to finish a little something I've been working on.
I like watching films that can play in any language because they're essentially silent.
Sometimes, some things have to settle, and you have to think about the intention of it.
Near my apartment in London, a lot of the pubs kind of look identical, which is very strange.
'Don't Look Now' is a masterpiece. I think it's the best-edited movie of all time. I adore it.
The man-child in American comedies is always glorified; they never really show the darker side.
The worst thing you can do after a test screening is slash it for the lowest common denominator.
When I did 'Hot Fuzz,' I tried to get Barbara Steele in the movie, but I was told she had retired.
I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complacent.
I'd rather try and cram in another two gags than leave a pause to say, 'Hey, wasn't that bit funny?'
When I went to college, I discovered the Sega console, and 'Sonic the Hedgehog' became very dear to me.
'RoboCop,' when that came out, was like the best comic book movie ever, and it's not based on a comic book.
When we made 'Shaun of the Dead,' it was our first feature, and we were just lucky to make a film, full stop.
One of the reasons for me that there's no 'Spaced 3' is that I don't think you can pretend to be 26 for ever.
'The Driver' wasn't commercially successful at the time, but when I was a teenager, I had no knowledge of that.
I love the Zucker brothers' films - 'Airplane!,' 'Top Secret' and 'Police Squad!' - are my formative experiences.
Critics should think about how the opening weekend audience might want to discover some surprises for themselves.
When you're doing a car chase movie, you're sitting in car waiting for places or grips or stuff for quite a while.
The idea of fighting your new girlfriend's ex-lovers, 'Street Fighter' style, is the ultimate geek wish-fulfilment.
In 'Shaun of the Dead,' it's not Shaun's fault that there's a zombie apocalypse - he just has to get through the day.
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.
Not everybody fantasizes about robbing a bank, but I think most people have that fantasy of being in a high speed chase.
When you're struggling to get a feature film off the ground, there's no big overarching tenure plan or anything like that.
We need to make more original movies, and audiences would do well to support original movies for the future of the medium.
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.
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.
We like to imagine that Shaun is in George Romero's universe, that it's happening at the same time as the Pittsburgh outbreak.
I think, 'Scott Pilgrim,' it was something where the general audience didn't necessarily understand straight away what it was.
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."
The making of documentaries for 'Humanoids From The Deep,' 'Galaxy Of Terror' and 'Forbidden World' are absolutely fascinating.
I guess a lot of comic-book adaptations strive for realism. Christopher Nolan is making Batman seem very real and very serious.
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.
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 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.
All of my films have been very dialogue-heavy, and that's great. It always makes it more of a challenge to market in other countries.
I just remember watching 'Brass Eye' and being so utterly blown away by the scope of it and how much it managed to cram into an episode.