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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.

~Edgar Wright

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I guess a lot of comic-book adaptations strive for realism. Christopher Nolan is making Batman seem very real and very serious.

~Edgar Wright

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I know it's become an ongoing thing about whether videogames are art, and I think there's plenty of examples of things that use the form in a fascinating way. Things that are more surreal or artistic, like 'Katamari Damacy' or 'Vib-Ribbon.'

~Edgar Wright

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I think where the criticism of videogames come from is where videogames are just Xeroxes of films, and when you get a film adaptation of that game, you've just Xeroxed something twice. I think that's where a lot of the criticism comes from - there are ultra-violent games that are already based on a million films.

~Edgar Wright

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It's funny: sometimes with 'Spaced,' people would try and read too much into something I'd done, with the references meaning something more than they do.

~Edgar Wright

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

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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.

~Edgar Wright

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In a lot of action films, a lot of guys are driving muscle cars or vintage cars, whereas in reality, a lot of getaway drivers would actually choose, like, commuter cars and find a way to blend into freeway traffic as quickly as possible.

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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.

~Edgar Wright

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There are plenty of movies that you need to chew on a bit. Movies that you return to and see something different in the second time around.

~Edgar Wright

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Director

Born: April 18th, 1974

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