Edgar Wright Quotes
When we made 'Shaun of the Dead,' it was our first feature, and we were just lucky to make a film, full stop.
Quotes to Explore
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Freedom is never granted; it is won.
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I'm at a point where there isn't any wasted movement in the throwing motion. Everything is consistent and smooth. When I first got into the league, I held the ball really high. That was the standard in college, and it messed up my timing a little bit - the draw, bringing it back, then the release.
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If I allow journalists to describe a collection and they make mistakes, I'm upset, because the retractions are never noticed.
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Male critics and men in the publishing industry want from their women writers what they want from their wives. I'm interested in presenting characters that are more challenging, threatening, complicated and unpredictable.
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When I'm in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me.
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Throughout my life, I have valued relationships far more than the professionalism.
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I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.
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The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
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Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
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Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
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Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.
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I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.
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Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.
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I'm kind of long in the tooth to fly in in a cape now, so I'd have to be, like, the voice of reason or somebody. 'Don't do that, super-fellow!'
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But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.
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Iran is not a nation-state; it's a revolutionary cause devoted to mayhem.
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It's all right to fail. You just have to get up again and try. That's the bottom line.
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Nature has introduced great variety into the landscape, but man has displayed a passion for simplifying it. Thus he undoes the built-in checks and balances by which nature holds the species within bounds.
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Film is new for me so I'm so fascinated by it and love it, but I would pass out if I could never do theater again. I'd be physically ill!
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And that's what makes this a great game, is the support and the commitment that the fans give the game.
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When we made 'Shaun of the Dead,' it was our first feature, and we were just lucky to make a film, full stop.
