

My idea was that the opening scene, you see this big fuck-off car chase. “I had an idea for this in the script right from the start. He’s stuck with this gang that he doesn’t want to be with, and there doesn’t seem to be an immediate exit, so the lyrics fit–‘Nowhere to run to, baby, nowhere to hide.'”
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“There are moments in the movie where the lyric is telling you exactly what’s happening, and the point when ‘Nowhere to Run’ comes in, Baby is in a fix. “Nowhere to Run,” Martha and the Vandellas So I thought there was something in this idea of a character who can’t operate without the right kind of music playing.” Whenever I’m writing a script, I’m scoring myself by playing the right kind of music. When I’m writing, even outside of this movie, I have to write the music playing, and it has to be the right kind of music. If you’re on a road trip you need driving music.

I use music to focus, like an internal motor. Then I started to have this idea: I’m very much like the main character, in terms of how I use music to motivate myself. Then I was trying to think of what story could sort of service this kind of dream that I was having. At that point that’s all that I really had. I started to visualize a car chase that would go along with the music. I had a cassette of it, and I just listened to ‘Bellbottoms’ over and over and over again. I was living in a house with some friends in an area called Wood Green. It was just when I first moved to London. “There was a point in my life when I couldn’t stop listening to Orange. “Bellbottoms,” Jon Spencer Blues Explosion (During the post-screening Q&A, Wright told moderator Robert Rodriguez that they actually cleared the rights to all of the music before they even started filming.) Here’s how some of the more prominently featured songs in the movie factored into Wright’s creative process. From the very inception of the idea to the screenplay itself, every song that appears in the film was carefully planned in advance. Those music cues aren’t incidental to Baby Driver, either.
