39 Quotes by Gareth Edwards

For ages I thought I'd wasted my career doing visual effects, I wanted to be a filmmaker. And then I've learnt at the end of it all that actually visual effects was probably the best training ground I could have had.

So your job as a director is to constantly try to stay at the steering wheel and pull it hard left or hard right. To try to give it a voice.

I consumed Spielberg movies when I was little.

There's a side of me that wants to rebel, and as soon as you go down this path with a movie, and you're supposed to go right, I want to go left, just to see what it's like. I just want to do it,because the more I know you aren't supposed to do something, the more I want to do it.

All great films have stories attached to them of how horrific they were to get made.

I take my 'Star Wars' quite seriously. There's humor in the movie, but as a fan I just wanted it to feel real.

I know when I was 9 and 10, I was watching films way beyond that age group, and it's what kids aspire to.

But you know, 'Star Wars' is the movie that's affected me the most in my entire life. It's the reason I wanted to become a filmmaker, and you've got this amazing opportunity to play on that field.

I feel like one of the most successful heroines in science-fiction cinema is Sigourney Weaver in 'Aliens' - I love her, and as a guy, no part of my brain thinks of her gender.