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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. ↗

— Simon Pegg

#believers #both #down #edgar #enter

I think that the joke and the ghost story both have a similar set up in that you kind of set something up and pay it off with a laugh or a scare. ↗

— Simon Pegg

#ghost #i #i think #joke #kind

I decided I was going to tell these stories. I went around and met Crumb. He was the cartoonist. I started realizing comics weren't just kid stuff. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#cartoonist #comics #crumb #decided #going

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? ↗

— Simon Pegg

#any #around #because #before #get

There is a universality to comedy. ↗

— Simon Pegg

#universality

There's this thing of you can live in a city and be completely alone, not notice anything going on around you. ↗

— Simon Pegg

#anything #around #city #completely #going

It seemed to me you could do anything in comics. So I started doing my thing, which is mainly influenced by novelists, stand-up comedians, that sort of thing. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#comedians #comics #could #doing #i

We don't watch the film anymore because we've seen it so many times, so we'll introduce it, walk out and we'll come back in right about when I wake up in the morning and walk over to the shop and everything's changed. ↗

— Simon Pegg

#anymore #back #because #changed #come

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. ↗

— Simon Pegg

#character #every #rectify #say #see

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. ↗

— Simon Pegg

#curb #enthusiasm #home #larry #like