Edgar Wright Quotes

I don't really think about film or television or going directly to the internet. I just think about doing something that people are going to get excited about.

Comics also led a lot of young people to science fiction.

I like pop music because it can really affect a large amount of people and if I tell stories and spread messages that I think are really important for people to be aware of, I would want it to be on the biggest platform and I feel like pop is that. I use it as a way to tell stories.

I always think, quite frankly that pop culture is a lot more important than a lot of people realize.

When people call something "original," 9 out of 10 times they just don't know the references or original sources involved.

I put so much pop culture in my movies because we speak about pop culture all the time. But, for some reason, movies exist in a world where there's no pop culture.

People abroad always tend to take what the best of what we have and come back through the back door always, say, and hit us with it. And then we wake up one day and say, I think I've heard that. Yeah, it was done by whoever, you know. So, ah, that's been one of our weaknesses we don't tend to hold on as they do there.

I was not even allowed to mention the name Madonna in my household - just because I think the '80s and '90s were so Madonna-filled. She was going through so many evolutions at that time.

At times people in the press were also useful to me.

I don't mind anything that's written about me, as long as it's not true.

You can't change the way people think, all you can do is give them a tool, the use of which will change their thinking.

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.

It's a lot easier to convince uninformed people than it is to convince politicians.

I think that leadership more than anything is about setting a course and describing a vision for people.

I think the children of Hollywood are more influential than the parents.

I just try to be myself and not conform to something I'm not and just continue doing what I do. I just try not to think about the fact that I'm an inspiration for people.

I don't care what you think of social media, and I don't care what you think of the people that comment .

The people that are around me that give me ideas that I pass along or we try, the one thing I never do, I never give credit to anybody but myself. So I take all of the ideas. So everybody thinks that all of the ideas are mine.

I don't think where people come from is that important. It doesn't matter if you come from reality TV. The question is whether you can inspire people.

There's this phenomenon where people do like to announce movies that they think I'm doing that I'm not.

The media is in the business of finding exceptions to everyday life. Bad things are still the exception. That's good, because once bad things stop being news, we really are in trouble. If people forget that bad is the exception, they think they live in a horrible world. There is so much that works and is right and friendly and warm. But we take that for granted.

Everybody always talks about the science fiction genre, in particular, which always makes me think about people in spaceships. I can appreciate that, but that's not really where I think my dramatist aspect lies.

Other people's ideas of us are dependent largely on what they've hoped for.

I think certain people would be moved to be nostalgic about America's glory days, when the music set the tone for the cultural conversation and popular musicians had this absurd level of authority.

Television is a great leveler. You always end up sounding like the people who ask the questions.