Edgar Wright Quotes
There are lots of films I wish stopped at installment number one. I like 'Back to the Future Part II' and 'Part III' enough, but I still like the ending of the first one better.
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I hate horror movies! I avoid them like the plague. I don't like getting scared.
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I think it's always best to be who you are.
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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Parenting is an impossible job at any age.
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You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.
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Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.
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Everything is real on me.
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When Philip Glass asked me if I would be interested in doing a new recording of Jesus' Blood he assumed that I would do something similar to the first version and wanted to know what other pieces would be on the same CD.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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One thing you know, if you've been in technology a while, you're only as good as the last thing you did. No one wants an original iPod. No one wants an iPhone 3GS.
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The production value of YouTube videos is not there.
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I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.
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I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.
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A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.
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On my first day at Yale Law School, there were posters in the hallways announcing an event with Tony Blair, the former British prime minister. I couldn't believe it: Tony Blair was speaking to a room of a few dozen students? If he came to Ohio State, he would have filled an auditorium of a thousand people.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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I'm a great believer in the experiential theory of writing.
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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
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Magicians are typically introverted; they don't tend to work with others, but I work with software programmers, composers, designers, so it's a very diverse group and the result is always more interesting than something I could have done by myself.
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I think feature films sell on the idea, and I think TV works based almost entirely on execution. I don't think anybody is going, 'Wow, that show is executed poorly, but the idea is so cool I just have to keep watching.'
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I see myself as a private-equity investor that helps rebuild companies. Restructuring is a cottage industry in that there aren't that many serious practitioners.
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Every morning during certain seasons of the year, the thrushes and blackbirds on all the lawns throughout the country draw out of their holes an astonishing number of worms; and this they could not do, unless they lay close to the surface.
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There are lots of films I wish stopped at installment number one. I like 'Back to the Future Part II' and 'Part III' enough, but I still like the ending of the first one better.
