Words matter. These are the best Gareth Edwards Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
I think the second you rule anything out is the second you end up doing them and then you look like an idiot online. Honestly, I feel like I got my dream, I got to make ‘Star Wars’.
It’s such a marathon making a film – two-and-a-half years, at least – and every day, you do something that in any other lifetime would be one of the highlights of your life.
Being such a fan of ‘Star Wars’, the dream is to be able to add something to the equation and bring something to the table like Death Troopers and ships.
All great films have stories attached to them of how horrific they were to get made.
I like jumping to perspectives that aren’t necessarily part of our characters, like suddenly you’re in a window, looking from someone’s house.
Yeah, I love Ewan McGregor, I think he’s phenomenal.
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.
My earliest memory of actually definitely wanting to be a filmmaker was when I got thrown out of class when I was 10 and I was storyboarding a short film I wanted to make with my friend’s camera.
Star Wars’ is so rich and it seems crazy that everyone’s, like, a white male guy. That’s due to the 1970s and the fact that it was shot in Britain, but I was very lucky: I’m British, I grew up in England, and I got to see myself represented in a film.
It’s a great Disney tradition, isn’t it? For every single character to die in all their movies.
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.
One of the things you do, when you have a scene or whatever it is you’re doing, I replay that scene in my head and pick different positions to watch it from in my head.
I’ve always wanted to do it. I know a lot of people say that, but I really did want to make films, even when I was a tiny little kid.
I like grey, not black and white. Even the bad creatures, you want to give them a moment where you empathise with them. You realise that what they do isn’t so evil.
Development is the first phase. People write a script, you get concept art. You get to a point where you get a green light, which is basically a production company saying they’re going to put the money up to make the movie. Then you go into production.
I came through the ranks of the BBC documentary department. I was lucky working during this drama doc era, where they did reconstructions, basically like cheap drama made by the factual department.
I like jumping around perspective. It keeps things alive and makes you realize that your personal perspective on anything is very misleading and it’s real hard to get a real sense of anything.
I hate love stories, personally. I’m not a fan of them. I absolutely loathe romantic comedies, with a passion, and I really worry when people use the word ‘romantic’ when they describe the film.
