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
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."
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...
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.
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.
years outsiders wells
I came from another county. I spent 15 years in Wells, but I was treated like an outsider. It was like, "Oh, you're not local."
wine drink used
I used to drink a lot of lager when I was younger, but I'm more of a wine drinker now, I guess. I feel daunted looking at full pints.
rose want crowns
I don't want to get them in trouble for crimes in the early '90s - but there was usually like one pub that was the soft touch in terms of you could get served under 18, and that pub was The Rose and Crown.
london looks strange
Near my apartment in London, a lot of the pubs kind of look identical, which is very strange.