Matthew Vaughn Quotations

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

You need cliches. Cliches are what people respond to.

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

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

So I am concerned about the amount of time we have to make it, cause it doesn't matter how much money you have, you can't create more time.

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

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

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

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

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

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

They loved him more than me . I would have nailed Bond .

Im as conservative as they come.

Cliches are what make you understand something.

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

Music is half the film.

If you give the audience what they expect, they'll be bored. There are no rules: You do what you want while respecting the boundaries. You don't poke people in the eye; you do things they haven't seen before and make it accessible, funny and clever.

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 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.

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

I'm a Star Wars fanatic.

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

People in LA seem to have no concept of the time outside of their city. I've been trained for thirty years in the film industry of having whether its agents, lawyers, actors, or whoever calling up all night.

People want fun and escapism at the moment. Look at the success of 'Guardians of the Galaxy'. I think Nolan kick-started a very dark, bleak style of superhero escapism, and I think people have had enough of it.