Everything that I've done so far has had a bigger budget than the last, but I've never ever felt the benefit of the bigger budget because the ideas always exceed the budget.

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

The editing process, to use a slightly grim analogy, is like the slow suffocation of lots of babies. It's like, which finger do you want to cut off first?

I'm a big fan; I like all sorts of genres. I do like an occasion to just switch my brain off and enjoy some mindless carnage.

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.

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."

The script and the performances and the style all clicked.

Now I'm back in LA, it's high time to finish a little something I've been working on.

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.

We like to imagine that Shaun is in George Romero's universe, that it's happening at the same time as the Pittsburgh outbreak.

Near my apartment in London, a lot of the pubs kind of look identical, which is very strange.

And what is that thing which you promise to provide?- 'The beauty of the soul and the simplicity of happiness', he replied.

Katsumi Hosokawa - (he) believed that life, true life, was something that was stored in music.

O happy earth, Whereon thy innocent feet doe ever tread!

I plan to send my liver somewhere in France, to protest foie gras (liver pate) ... I plan to have handbags made from my skin ... and an umbrella stand made from my seat.

You don't want to do what your parents want you to do. You got your own things. And the whole idea of getting a job because of who your father is - that didn't isn't right.

Marian Palaia is a writer of startling grace and sensuous lyricism - reading her, you feel as if you've never heard language this beautiful and this true.

A lot of men just don't read. They don't read fiction at all.

What great changes have not been ambitious?

Back then, the excise tax was designed to be a luxury tax for people who owned telephones.