Edgar Wright

To answer your question, though, Jason, I tell you, a lot of filmmakers that were really big to me beyond, like, you know, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, but there was a particular time of, like, when I was sort of growing up in the 80s of people that meant a lot to me were like...

John Carpenter, Joe Dante, John Landis.

And then when I was in my, maybe you're at 15, I think there was the year that I saw Raising Arizona by the Coen Brothers and Evil Dead 2 by Sam Raimi in quick succession.

And those were real mind blowers to me in terms of like, oh my God, look how much fun these guys are having

in film yeah it was so infectious both of those movies one of which is a comedy one of which is a comedy horror but they have a lot in common and those guys were friends as well and colleagues but like just what they did with the camera and how they got like just magic and infectious enthusiasm out of every frame those were like i gotta see evil dead too um is it well significantly better than evil dead one

Oh, it's just, you haven't seen the second one?

Oh, it's fun.

It's a blast.

It's kind of like they just decided let's remake the first film and put more Three Stooges in it.

Is that what it was?

Yeah, that was the thing for Comet Relief.

I think I had seen something.

It was a film program in the UK.

I guess it was probably film, 91 at the time.

But they had a thing about the lack of wheelchair ramps in the cinema.

So I did an animation about it for Comet Relief.

So that was when I was on TV when I was like 16 years old.

And one of the things, there's a funny thing about that.

And actually you can find the clip on YouTube.

One of the weird things, imagine being on live TV for the first time and they accidentally told me the night before that I'd won.