Edgar Wright explains why he watches "Raising Arizona" (1987) every time before making a new movie:
"When I first saw "Raising Arizona" (1987) as a teenager, I watched it immediately again afterwards. I just couldn't quite believe that a comedy could be that stylish and that dense in terms of its visuals and in terms of its dialogue. So funny in so many different ways. I mean, I just think that film is a miracle.
It's always a film that I look to when I'm about to make a movie. And certainly it was a movie that me and Simon Pegg talked a lot about before we made 'Shaun of the De@d' (2004). Even though it's not a horror film, there's a lot of things in that film in terms of the pace and the drive, the really inspired Shaun. [Like] the use of callbacks within the script. So, that movie is a huge inspiration to me."
("Four Favorites with Edgar Wright", Letterboxd, 2024)