“When I did 'Hot Fuzz,' I tried to get Barbara Steele in the movie, but...” — Edgar Wright Quote

“When I did 'Hot Fuzz,' I tried to get Barbara Steele in the movie, but I was told she had retired.”

“Car chases are as painstaking to make as they are fun to watch. They take a lot of time, and you have to keep the energy up.”

“We were shooting 'Hot Fuzz' in my hometown of Wells, Somerset, and I remember looking at the dailies and going, 'Wait, there's a Starbucks in the shot. I don't remember that being there!' We had to digitally remove it; the same thing happened with a McDonald's in another scene. I had this sensation of, 'What's going on here? Where am I?'”

“Sinatra had a lot of mood swings, but he was wonderful to my wife Barbara and to me. He made no bones about who he liked and who he loved, and he had this great charisma. When he walked into a room, it stopped. I've only seen that happen with Ronald Reagan.”

“I do think that fist-waving conversations around liberation ideologies are sort of dated - I'm not creating Barbara Kruger moments of self-actualization - what I'm trying to do is create more moments of chaos where we don't really know where we are: to destabilize; where all the rules are suspended temporarily.”