Edgar Wright's Quotes

I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complacent.

When I went to college, I discovered the Sega console, and 'Sonic the Hedgehog' became very dear to me.

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.'

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.

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.

Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.

All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.

If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.

If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.

Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.

Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.

I have been swamped with tremendous response. I am expecting a huge crowd.

It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential.

Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ.

Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.

The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.

There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.

These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.

How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers.

However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly.