Edgar Wright quotes

Born
18 April 1974, Poole, Dorset, England, United Kingdom.

Occupation
Director.

Edgar Wright is an English director, screenwriter and producer.

Movies
Baby Driver (2017)
Hot Fuzz (2007)
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)
Shaun of the Dead (2004)
The World’s End (2013)

I call it Inherent Twice because I am looking forward to seeing it again.
– Edgar Wright

I am always watching old films and trying to fill gaps in my knowledge.
– Edgar Wright

The script and the performances and the style all clicked.
– Edgar Wright

If you’re on a road trip, you need driving music.
– Edgar Wright

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

I’m a big believer in keeping the stage directions really tight.
– Edgar Wright

I use music to focus, like an internal motor.
– Edgar Wright

Sometimes, some things have to settle, and you have to think about the intention of it.
– Edgar Wright

When you’re struggling to get a feature film off the ground, there’s no big overarching tenure plan or anything like that.
– Edgar Wright

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

The worst thing you can do after a test screening is slash it for the lowest common denominator.
– Edgar Wright

When I am not working, I try to watch more than one film a day if I can.
– Edgar Wright

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

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 .
– Edgar Wright

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

I remember seeing ‘Gremlins’ and having my mind blown and seeing ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience.
– Edgar Wright

Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.
– Edgar Wright

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

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

Near my apartment in London, a lot of the pubs kind of look identical, which is very strange.
– Edgar Wright

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

I tire of franchises, remakes, and endless sequels.
– Edgar Wright

Now I’m back in LA, it’s high time to finish a little something I’ve been working on.
– Edgar Wright

You cannot put 50 years of the Marvel universe into a movie. It’s impossible.
– Edgar Wright

When you’re doing a car chase movie, you’re sitting in car waiting for places or grips or stuff for quite a while.
– Edgar Wright