Edgar Wright Quotes
When you're struggling to get a feature film off the ground, there's no big overarching tenure plan or anything like that.
Quotes to Explore
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You break her heart, I'll break your neck.
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What you pay for an investment is the single biggest determinant for how successful that investment will be. When equity prices are high, your returns will be lower. When they are cheap, your returns will be higher.
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If you have a happy home, everything is sorted, I guess.
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If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.
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For an actor, a Mamet play is definitely on the list of things you hope to be a part of before it's time to exit.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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There's nothing worse than a director who feels more like a cop than a comrade, so I try to never give orders or create an environment where it's 'my way or the highway,' because actually allowing talented people to bring their originality and insight always brings more depth and complexity than if everyone has to do what you tell them to!
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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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We must recognize our own behavioral errors. To be blunt, you are not likely to become a cognitive Zen master anytime soon. But a little enlightenment could keep you from making some common investing errors.
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When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward.
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I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
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The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.
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If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.
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Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.
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If you are an Arabic-speaking, Greek-Orthodox going to a French school it makes you deeply sceptical if you have to listen to three different accounts of the Crusades - one from the Muslim side, one from the Greek side and one from the Catholic side.
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You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character.
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What if you could radically alter the way stories get told? What if the way people wanted to consume content actually changed what you could make?
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I couldn't tell if any frames were removed. Seen as a whole it shows that I have seen. Seeing you have 18 frames a second you can take out one or two and I couldn't tell.
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What I like about the EMAs is that you will never know what happens.
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Archetypes are always [in my film-making]. It's sometimes interesting to just flip them a little bit and see the underside.
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As far as film goes, I enjoy all Hollywood films and all Horror films like The Bride of Frankenstein, which also might be my favorite. I like 60's and 70's Italian and Spanish Horror films.
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When you're struggling to get a feature film off the ground, there's no big overarching tenure plan or anything like that.
