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There is a universality to comedy.
Being a geek is extremely liberating
I just love listening to the laughter.
You don't look at each other on the subway.
In England, we don't have any guns whatsoever.
I loved playing Shaun, he's not that different from me.
Being a geek is all about being honest about what you enjoy.
American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones.
One thing that irritates me is when people kind of make assumptions.
The simple fact is that what you see on the screen is pretty much real.
The worst and the best that the internet ever did was give everybody a voice.
Doctor Who was a big part of my childhood so it was a great honour to be in it.
Happiness is where you start from rather than where you go. God, I sound like Yoda.
I defy anybody to not look cool with the guns. My granny could look cool doing that!
Being a geek means you never have to play it cool about how much you like something.
I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack.
The main jokes in this film are about big things, love and life and zombies - we all get that.
I don't know about doing a sequel. I think you can retroactively damage a product by adding to it.
You always worry about films when you hear about them making decisions after announcements are made.
The only spoof I think is the title, which was just we thought of very early on and it kind of stuck.
Bill Hicks wasn't just a comic, he was a crusader against humanity's relentless capacity to underachieve
There's this thing of you can live in a city and be completely alone, not notice anything going on around you.
I think the jokes would have been a bit broader and a bit more obvious in terms of the day-to-day of country life.
I love my job very much, and I don't think I would change it. In fact, I know I wouldn't, because I can't do anything else.
That's always important to us, is being truthful. Not guessing, not making any assumptions. Just coming at it with knowledge.
I was always Luke because I had blond hair, and my mate Stu was Han. Han was the cool one. The Jedi were never the cool ones.
When you're a student and you just want some money to feel like you're an adult, you'll pretty much do anything within reason.
I think I would probably be He-Man because Battle Cat would clinch the deal for me because I've always wanted a large, green cat.
The trouble with improv is that it is often about being funny in the moment without any real consideration for the bigger picture.
If one of your best friends is making a Star Wars movie, you're not gonna not abuse that privilege. I defy anybody to say otherwise!
The trouble with addiction is that you can park the car but you can never switch off the engine or stop yourself from hearing the revs.
Chris Martin's a good friend of mine. I'm actually Apple's godfather. He's an old friend and we've been mates for quite a few years now.
I think that the joke and the ghost story both have a similar set up in that you kind of set something up and pay it off with a laugh or a scare.
You grow up watching certain films or admiring certain filmmakers, and to write a love letter to one and have them validate it, it's extraordinary.
You know what, despite my complaints about The Phantom Menace and Episode II, when Episode III comes out I'll be first in line. I genuinely love it.
You look at shows like The Simpsons or Larry Sanders or Curb Your Enthusiasm or Seinfeld, they're really sophisticated shows that we all love back home.
I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.
We are never more creative than when we are at odds with the world and there is nothing so artistically destructive as comfort. Princess Leia taught me that.
We work with every one of them to see if their character wouldn't say a certain thing or if something is worded awkwardly - we work with them to rectify that.
Films that rely on their cast to be funny are often episodic and feel like a series of loosely connected sketches rather than a satisfyingly structured script.
Sometimes you just wish you could make a film and then have it on DVD so you can see your mom. But, no, I've never really had that moment. Not really. Not seriously.
I do get very angry at things. My wife has to count to ten because if she gets annoyed at me being annoyed, then I get annoyed at her being annoyed at me being annoyed.
Also, if you watch the film once, there are lots of things that you won't get because there are punch lines in the first act, the setup to which isn't until the second act.
Unfortunately the necessity to promote a film sometimes works against it, in that you are forced to reveal information [about it] that in an ideal world you would hold back.
Often you read something about yourself, and either you've been ironic, and that doesn't work in print, or it paraphrases something that you said, and has a different meaning.
There are actually quite high profile British TV star cameos in it that you probably wouldn't even notice, that the British wouldn't even notice, let alone the American audience.
The nuts and bolts of shooting a film and writing a film are still really difficult. But what makes it easier is the fact that you know you're going to go to work with your best mate.
I've only played two sort-of slackers, in Spaced and in Shaun Of The Dead. They're different people, but they have the same kind of everyman quality, particularly as a twentysomething.
It's hard, really, to make any physical movement that hasn't been done in another film. If you grab someone's hand, it doesn't mean you're referencing other films with grabbing hands...
I'm simply saying that our deepest thoughts, desires and preoccupations manifest themselves in art, whether we intend them to or not. That's what art is for; it's not cerebral, it's emotional.