Simon Pegg British Quotations

We suddenly saw how people reacted in the event of massive social upheaval, and the way that the little problems in your life don't go away. You don't stop being frightened of spiders just because the world's blown up.

I don't know about doing a sequel. I think you can retroactively damage a product by adding to it.

You don't look at each other on the subway.

You look at shows like The Simpsons or Larry Sanders or Curb Your Enthusiasm or Seinfeld, they're really sophisticated shows that we all love back home.

American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones.

In England, we don't have any guns whatsoever.

You always worry about films when you hear about them making decisions after announcements are made.

Both me and Edgar are firm believers in never underestimating or talking down to an audience, and giving an audience something to do, to give them something which is entirely up to them to enter into the film and find these hidden things and whatever.

That's what we wanted to get across in that moment, particularly when Shaun goes to the shop when he's all hung over. He doesn't notice any of the zombies around him just because he never had before, so why should he at that point?

I loved playing Shaun, he's not that different from me.

The only spoof I think is the title, which was just we thought of very early on and it kind of stuck.

There are a lot of visual marks that have to be hit, and lines that need to be said in a right way - so there wasn't really any improvisation on the set when it came to the bulk of the script.

Because once the word got out that we were making Shaun of the Dead, we didn't want people to think we were backtracking or changing our minds.

I always loved horror and that's sort of the reason we decided to make the film. We were nourished on those sorts of films, so it was a labor of love.

We work with every one of them to see if their character wouldn't say a certain thing or if something is worded awkwardly - we work with them to rectify that.

We wanted the humor to happen as a result of the zombies, you know? Like the humor being a result of their presence, rather than them being funny.

Your instinct, rather than precision stabbing, is more about just random bludgeoning.

But I think there's plenty of British comedy that Americans have never seen that they would like but sometimes things just get through.

It's the very British thing of reserve and keeping everything shut in, that's what people do with their emotions, shut the curtains on them.

The last time I played a bad guy was in Black Books and it is always fun to play a bad guy, particularly if they are really smilingly nasty.