Top 20 Simon Pegg Quotes

We suddenly saw how people reacted in the event of massive social upheaval, and the way that the little problems in your life don’t go away. You don’t stop being frightened of spiders just because the world’s blown up.

The only spoof I think is the title, which was just we thought of very early on and it kind of stuck.

You don’t look at each other on the subway.

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.

Every person should have their escape route planned. I think everyone has an apocalypse fantasy, what would I do in the event of the end of the world, and we just basically – me and Nick – said what would we do, where would we head?

I loved playing Shaun, he’s not that different from me.

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.

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.

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.

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?

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

I just love listening to the laughter.

Doctor Who was a big part of my childhood so it was a great honour to be in it.

There is a universality to comedy.

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.

There are actually quite high profile British TV star cameos in it that you probably wouldn’t even notice, that the British wouldn’t even notice, let alone the American audience.

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

You always worry about films when you hear about them making decisions after announcements are made.

I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack.

Chris Martin’s a good friend of mine. I’m actually Apple’s godfather. He’s an old friend and we’ve been mates for quite a few years now.