Matthew Vaughn Quotes

It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies.

I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books.

People just want to watch movies that are entertaining, it doesn't matter what genre it is.

Crime, money, power, drugs - are all linked.

Being a producer, I deal with a lot of different directors, and some of them would drive me insane with all the different histrionics, and the mystique that they carry.

Some people are directors and I think they should stay behind the camera.

I'm not a member of a minority but I can empathize with what's going on.

I think there's a time in your life where you don't feel like you fit in. I think everyone has that when you're a teenager, especially, and especially in the society we live in.

I like doing as many special effects in camera, as much as possible.

Music is half the film.

I had a philosophy, which may have been proven right, that directing isn't as hard as everyone says it is.

Cliches are what make you understand something.

I'm a big believer that it doesn't matter what you call your company, nobody ever notices.

You need cliches. Cliches are what people respond to.

So I think I sometimes will put a cliche in and then just pad it out so you're not noticing.

I think it's easier to make a film with 200 million dollars than 960 grand.

You can't please everyone... If you make a good movie, that's all that matters.

I'll never be a good writer, and no chance of being a good actor.

I will never sign anything which makes me have to do more than one film.

And writing I think is a gift that you have, the same as acting, in a way.

I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny.

Ironically, I think action can be the dullest part of movies nowadays - and I love action movies!

I learned very quickly that the hard thing in life is to make good films. Technically, filmmaking is the camera and the actor telling the story and that's what I'm more interested in doing.

You either ignore the comic book and make a great movie or you stay very close to the comic book.

I think you should make a movie that has an audience.

I'm a Star Wars fanatic.

What I learned very quickly is that if you get it right in the first two or three takes, it's not going to get that much better.

Every night I vow to work out in the morning. For the past three years, however, I have always found an excuse not to.

I think music is what takes the experience off the screen into your soul, into your head.

I like the X-Men, otherwise I wouldn't be doing it.

Im as conservative as they come.