Edgar Wright

Once people realized that, 'Hey, we're going to be left on Earth here, and everything is going to hell quickly,' sci-fi soon became about our own self-destruction. ”

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. ”

When you're doing a car chase movie, you're sitting in car waiting for places or grips or stuff for quite a while. ”

If you go back to your home town or you're reunited with school friends, its always slightly bittersweet because as much as there's nice things in terms of seeing them again, the town has changed without you, and you're no longer a part of it. ”

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 was never a DC kid - I went through a phase from, like, 11 to 17 where I would try to buy as many Marvel titles as possible. And '2000 AD' was kind of the sort of sci-fi/punk of British comics. ”

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. ”

I'd like to do some things over again. I never want to repeat anything that went well, though - I just want to do better at slightly different things. ”

I would say 'American Werewolf in London' is like an unconventional buddy movie: even if the buddy dies 20 minutes in, he still remains throughout the picture, and their partnership is one of the best things in the movie. ”

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