Edgar Wright Quotes

The sci-fi movies I grew up with, the metaphor was very rich, and they used to really mean something: David Cronenberg's films, or John Carpenter's films, or the Phil Kaufman and Don Segel versions of 'Invasion Of The Body Snatchers,' or George Romero's early zombie films.

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• I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.

  

  Ed Helms
  • Business
  • City
  • Universe

• I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!

  

  Gary Numan
  • People
  • Good
  • Car

• I love doing eyes - my signature look is a cat eye. I think it's so feminine, and it reminds me of old Hollywood.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • Love
  • Eyes
  • Eye

• You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Music
  • Decisions

• For me, family has always come first.

  

  Candace Parker
  • Family
  • Me
  • Always

• I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Hair
  • Never
  • Saturday

• I started working out, eating a good diet, and just did everything I could that I thought would benefit me. I also started studying a lot harder in school. It matured me a remarkable amount and made me completely focused.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Good
  • School
  • Thought

• Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • Music
  • Today
  • Song

• There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Times
  • Penalty
  • Those

• When you look at someone good like J.J. Abrams who gives you the spectacle and great action set pieces but also gives you character and great story and plotting and narrative, I think it's my job - and my intention - to do both.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Good
  • Great
  • Character

• No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Life
  • Time
  • Music

• I just have to concentrate on doing what I do.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Doing
  • Just
  • Concentrate

• There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Life
  • Children
  • Family

• I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Hope
  • Imagination
  • Lose

• I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Music
  • Always
  • Dresses

• I don't want them to read what I'm writing and say, 'I think that's right,' and agree with me. I want them to read something and then walk away and be haunted by it.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Writing
  • Want
  • Right

• It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Life
  • Good
  • Comedy

• The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Way
  • Swing
  • Bat

• Pretty much every society, every culture in the world has some version of the Arthur legend, so everybody knows it; certainly in the western world, everybody knows King Arthur, but nobody knows what happens next.

  

  Neil Marshall
  • World
  • Pretty
  • Society

• There is a mistaken idea, ancient but still with us, that an overdose of anything from fornication to hot chocolate will teach restraint by the very results of its abuse.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
  • Ideas
  • Abuse
  • Chocolate

• I didn't have an incredibly active social life as a teenager. I always wished it was a little bit more exciting than it was.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Life
  • Always
  • Teenager

• I didn't have a teen age at all. I didn't even look at boys, never mind... then suddenly it was like, 'Oh my god!' So I made up for a lot of lost time very quickly. It was kind of bonkers. Working hard, partying hard - but also experiencing life, you know.

  

  Anne-Marie Duff
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Since I train instinctively and listen to my body, I have no set routine. I very much train by feel.

  

  Rich Piana
  • Body
  • Train
  • Routine

• The sci-fi movies I grew up with, the metaphor was very rich, and they used to really mean something: David Cronenberg's films, or John Carpenter's films, or the Phil Kaufman and Don Segel versions of 'Invasion Of The Body Snatchers,' or George Romero's early zombie films.

  

  Edgar Wright
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