Edgar Wright
Edgar Wright
Edgar Howard Wrightis an English director, screenwriter, producer, and actor. He is best known for his comedic Three Flavours Cornetto film trilogy consisting of Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and The World's End, made with recurrent collaborators Simon Pegg, Nira Park and Nick Frost. He also collaborated with them as the director of the television series Spaced...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth18 April 1974
CityPoole, England
teenager thinking two
I think when I was getting into directing, or wanting to be a director, when I was a teenager, the two films that really inspired me were Raising Arizona and Evil Dead II. And in the case of the former, I thought, "Wow. Why don't all comedies look like this?" And then as I started doing comedy, particularly when I started doing it on TV.
angel thinking people
There are things that are about the entire genre, so it's weird when you look on Wikipedia and people say, "The scene where Angel grabs his fist is from Superman II," and you're thinking, "Ummm, no it's not." Or, "There's a shot from Matrix Revolutions." I'm thinking, "I've only seen Matrix Revolutions once, and will never watch it ever again."
fun thinking agents
It's funny, my agent came up to us and said, "That line, when Nicholas says, 'I'm gonna bust this thing wide open,' what film's that from?" I said, "I think it's from every film." It's just like you get into that kind of mode of generic dialogue, it's fun to do.
writing thinking tv-shows
Just concentrate on the performers. Make sure you get the performers, and that's it. That's all we need to do." And I was thinking, "Well what if you do both? Of course the performance is important, the writing is really important. But what if you could have the perfect marriage of making it look really slick as well?" I think that's kind of what I tried to develop as a style, and Spaced was the first TV show I did where all the elements came together.
thinking pressure kind
I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complacent.
thinking genre-is trying
In a weird way, riffing on genres is kind of a reaction to formula. When you watch so much of the programmers and the films that you just think you've seen before, it's kind of going back to the well in terms of trying to conjure up the spirit of what made you excited about films in the first place.
art night light
I used to stay up all night playing 'Resident Evil 2,' and it wouldn't stop until the sun came up. Then I'd walk outside at dawn's first light, looking at the empty streets of London, and it was like life imitating art. It felt like I'd stepped into an actual zombie apocalypse.
fascination watches horror
I've always been fascinated by horror films and genre films. And horror films harbored a fascination for me and always have been something I've wanted to watch and wanted to make.
girl teenager break
I definitely went through a period when I was a teenager when every girl was 'The One' and every break-up was the 'Worst Thing That Had Ever Happened.
college hedgehogs sonic-the-hedgehog
When I went to college, I discovered the Sega console, and 'Sonic the Hedgehog' became very dear to me.
looking-forward inherent seeing
I call it Inherent Twice because I am looking forward to seeing it again.
littles im-back
Now I'm back in LA, it's high time to finish a little something I've been working on...
style scripts performances
The script and the performances and the style all clicked.
pittsburgh imagine outbreaks
We like to imagine that Shaun is in George Romero's universe, that it's happening at the same time as the Pittsburgh outbreak.