The British filmmaker of “Shaun of the Dead” and “Scott Pilgrim vs.
“When you become an evangelist for a band, you grab anybody within earshot to say, ‘Hey, listen to this!’ ” he says.
I’d sort of become friendly with them in Los Angeles and I’d observed enough of them just as people that I found them incredibly charming, but I was also very aware of how dedicated they were to the cause.
Usually when a band gets famous, they all go spinning in different directions and then it’s difficult to keep the chemistry together.
Wright: Nobody’s asked to do a documentary about me, but I do get asked by quite a few people to shadow me.
In “Hot Fuzz,” I tried to use “This Town Ain’t Big Enough for the Both of Us” where Timothy Dalton and Simon Pegg are fighting in a model village – so, literally, this town ain’t big enough for the both of us – and I noticed it started really well then I found myself listening to Sparks and not watching the scene.
Wright: I had piano lessons when I was 5 for like one year and then my parents had to sell the piano.
He made “Mad Max: Fury Road” when he was 71, and Sparks are releasing great albums and now have an opera opening Cannes in their early 70s.