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Is there a genre you guys wouldn't want to touch?
EDGAR: Never want to touch? I think…the abortion issue. [laughs] Citizen Ruth is a very funny film about the abortion issue. I think if there are genres I don't really care for that much…like, I've never been that big of a war film fan, particularly. But that's the thing: We don't really see ourselves as spoofers. We like to think that our films are done out of affection. They're Valentines rather than parodies. I'd like to think there's a big difference between Hot Fuzz and Epic Movie.

NICK: Well, you'd think.

So if you don't have the love for it —
NICK: What's the point? Right. You're going to spend two years doing it, you know what I mean? So it's a long time.

EDGAR: I think we do like doing genre stuff, but it's a coincidence in a way that [these films] have fallen so easy into "zombie films" and "cop films," because in a way, Shaun of the Dead was more similar to the TV series we used to do, Spaced, whereas Hot Fuzz we designed to be a complete departure — doing something completely different and having Simon's character be completely different and Nick's character being completely different. So it's funny, no matter how far you try and go, it becomes, "You've done zombies, you've done cops, what's next?" We don't really think of it like that. So the ideas sort of come organically, it's not that we have a laundry list of different genres that we want to tick off.

How did you find the time to put your Grindhouse trailer "Don't" together?
EDGAR: I shot that five weeks before Grindhouse came out, whilst we were doing the press tour [for Hot Fuzz]. Just before we left, the start of the "Fuzzball Rally," that documentary on the DVD, I just finished "Don't" just before I went on the American tour. I had written it back in 2005 when Quentin and Robert first asked me, I sort of came up with the idea straightaway and wrote it and handed it in to them and Quentin said, "The irony is, you've completed the first pages of the film." Because they hadn't finished their screenplays, so mine was kind of the first thing but the last to be shot. I had such a blast doing that. I really, really enjoyed it.

NICK: Because you said you were only ever shooting the "pop" shots.

EDGAR: Yeah. Just the money shots. It was a blast. I shot for two and half days, it was really fun.