Matthew Vaughn Quotes (31 Quotes)

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

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

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.

Music is half the film.

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

Want to know the real reasons why Layer Cake ... Actually, there were several reasons he turned it down,' she says, casting aside an opportunity for a happy family moment, which I appreciate. 'We would have all travelled together and lived wherever was necessary. We would have made it work if he had loved everything else about that project, but he didn't.'

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'm a Star Wars fanatic.

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

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

Cliches are what make you understand something.

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

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

You need cliches. Cliches are what people respond to.

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

I'm as conservative as they come.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Layer Cake director Matthew Vaughn was also approached to direct Casino Royale , possibly with Craig as Bond. They loved him more than me , ... I would have nailed Bond .

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

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