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Ben Wheatley (born 1972) is an English director of feature films, TV comedy shows, adverts and idents, animated shorts and internet ads.

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If you make a movie in the UK you've got to embrace the weather with open arms. . . We got some of the most amazing weather as well. It's maybe why some of these places, like the Lake District, don't get filmed in so much. If you were trying to make it look like some kind of chocolate box image of England you'd be there all year waiting for the sun to come out.

Chocolate, District, Maybe, Trying, Waiting

Doctor Who is pretty dark, I think. Generally its dark; its always been dark.

Dark, Doctor, Doctors, Think, Thinking

The reality of any location in Britain being used in a TV program of a film is that something bad is going to happen! That's the nature of drama. Most of the things that get made or basically grisly detective shows about murders, accidents or medical dramas.

Drama, Medical, Reality, Tvs, Used

Sometimes my scripts get so dissolved, and they're so different from when I wrote them originally, that I find it hard to find what I wrote in it.

Different, Hard, Originally, Scripts, Sometimes

The things that inspire people to think are what keeps a film alive.

Alive, Film, Inspire, People, Thinking

I like that confusion when people are speaking in the same language but still can't understand each other. It's also usually my experience of being in America - when I speak no one can understand what I'm saying.

Confusion, Language, People, Speak, Speaking

If I'd been offered 'Spider-Man,' I probably would have done it. I don't think it's bad to go and do those things.

Bad, Done, Men, Spiders, Think, Thinking

It's part of developing the whole state of how cinema is; everyone is looking out and engaged rather than it being just a financial thing or sitting back, waiting for scripts to turn up.

Back, Cinema, Looking, Sitting, Thing, Waiting

I think a big part of my job is to make an atmosphere on set and have an attitude that it's about experimentation, and you can't do anything wrong. It's not about judgment, it's not about me kicking over a chair and storming onto set and acting stuff out and telling people to copy what I do. That is a style of directing some people have, but I don't understand it.

Attitude, Jobs, Judgment, Think, Thinking, Wrong

There's no way you can shoot low-budget stuff on lots of locations. It's just a practicality thing because every time you move, it costs time and money.

Cost, Money, Moving, Practicality, Stuff, Thing

Lots of crime films are about work. Free Fire could have been about a company of plumbers doing pipe-fixing and stuff. But the plumbing film is not so exciting.

Crime, Film, Plumbers, Plumbing, Work

The only genre I have any problem with is musicals, but that's just my own tastes it's nothing to do with the films.

Film, Films, Genre, Nothing, Problem, Taste

I genuinely try to make movies I'd want to go and see, movies that are a bit more challenging.

Challenges, Challenging, Genuinely, Movies, See, Trying

Society is about masks and hiding and pretending to be something that you're not and not opening up, and in acting, you do all of those things, but it also shows the performers in a very raw state. They have to literally upset themselves to get to that position sometimes. You don't need a load of people judging you or not being interested in what you're doing or being an ass on set because it ruins it.

Ass, Judging, Opening Up, People, Position, Ruins

If you judge everything by how photographically real it looks, then you're missing out on a lot of what art is about and what communication is. There are ambiguities in life, and that should be reflected in art, cinema, and storytelling, I think.

Ambiguities, Art, Communication, Real, Reflected, Think