Edgar Wright Quotes
'Don't Look Now' is a masterpiece. I think it's the best-edited movie of all time. I adore it.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.
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You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
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Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.
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I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'
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Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.
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I find it hard to be labelled in this new 'super-rich' category because we all grew up with very little. The idea that 'to get rich is glorious' is really a new phenomenon. I certainly didn't grow up like that.
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People always say 'humbling,' but I actually think it's quite inflating being nominated for an award. It's wonderful; it's a great feeling.
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Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.
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I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.
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I don't believe in having spaces in the home that don't get used. We pay so much for square footage that to waste it is criminal.
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You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.
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I am a big PETA supporter, and their East Coast headquarters is the Sam Simon building, and their West Coast headquarters is in the Bob Barker building.
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I'd like to give people leaden boots in galleries, so they'd be a bit slower in front of my paintings. And that's because I spend so much time looking at them. I can look at them a long, long time without getting bored. I disappear.
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I'm not really a fan of healthy food - I love eating! But, of course, I do work out.
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I don't think you can judge something without seeing it.
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I've said some things about other religions that I regret now. I think they were incorrect.
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Our nation is today a powerful nation.
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A vague uneasiness: the police. It's like when you suddenly understand you have to undress in front of the doctor.
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The freedoms which had been so hard won from colonial domination were being crushed by Soviet-inspired and funded military and political forces. Their clear intention was to deprive the people of their democratic freedoms. As history shows, this is what had happened in the Soviet Union and in Cuba, and continues to be the case in other parts of the world.
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So what I did was stuff my face with anything around, any old rubbish, burgers, chocolate, crisps, fish and chips, loads of it, till I felt sick - but at least I'd had the pleasure of stuffing my face and feeling really full.
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So many things have to come together to get a creatively successful and financially successful film. Sometimes you'll have a movie that you're very proud of, and you think it transcended all of your expectations, but it doesn't come out at the right time. I have done movies that have never been released. That can be depressing.
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'Don't Look Now' is a masterpiece. I think it's the best-edited movie of all time. I adore it.
