'Scott Pilgrim' cast talks about director Edgar Wright and why they loved working with him

(MakingOf) What does Edgar Wright have as a director that really helps you guys as actors?

(Michael Cera) Well he had a vision, you know, and so, you don't have to question yourself too much because you can just put yourself in his hands and trust him to correct you if you're doing something that doesn't fit with the vision that he has.  So as long as he was satisfied you knew, 'Okay then it's gonna feel right.'

(Jason Schwartzman) One thing I really liked about working with Edgar on this movie is that it's a very big movie, you know, there's a lot going on.  But you never feel like Edgar was that far away from you physically.  Like with all of these people around you could just say, 'Edgar I have a question...' and he would say 'Yeah?'  Like he could always hear you.  He's always within like a voice length from you, which is so nice on one of these...a movie where...I've heard sometimes on other kinds of action movies that the actors can feel a bit abandoned by the directors, but we never felt that.  We always felt like Edgar was right there with us.  So that's really a key thing, we never felt alone. (cuts to Scott Pilgrim clip)

(MO) Mary for you, what is kind of the big difference between working with somebody like Quentin Tarantino and then working with somebody like Edgar Wright, because they both are amazing...

(Mary Elizabeth Winstead) It's kind of a hard question because the films are so different, you know, and so they're kind of hard to compare.   But I think their similarities are in the way they're so passionate about films.  I mean, they live and breathe films.  And they both know exactly what they want.  These are the only two films I've ever worked on where every choice is not questioned by anyone because you trust the director so much that nobody is going to question anything.  And on Death Proof there weren't even any monitors anywhere for people to watch and say 'Oh I'm not sure about what we're doing there because he's like, 'I don't care what you think.  This is my movie.'  You know so it was cool to kind of have that kind of trust and faith in a director to just know that their vision is perfect.