Crime, money, power, drugs - are all linked.
Matthew Vaughn
I'm as conservative as they come.
For me, I'm not Spielberg. I can't edit while filming another film.
Music is half the film.
You can't please everyone... If you make a good movie, that's all that matters.
I'm a Star Wars fanatic.
I'm more of a comic-book movie fan than a comic book fan.
I think music is what takes the experience off the screen into your soul, into your head.
I like doing as many special effects in camera, as much as possible.
I'm not a member of a minority but I can empathize with what's going on.
I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny.
I had a philosophy, which may have been proven right, that directing isn't as hard as everyone says it is.
I was inspired by all of it. 'The Avengers,' 'Harry Palmer,' 'The Prisoner,' 'The Man from UNCLE,' 'In Like Flint.' Of course, there's a huge shadow of Bond - Bond is the monolith of spy movies - but it's not just about Bond; there were a lot of other things that influenced me.
People just want to watch movies that are entertaining, it doesn't matter what genre it is.
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.
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 like the X-Men, otherwise I wouldn't be doing it.
If you do something that's not pigeonholed, it gets thrown into the 'We don't know what this is' bin, and so let's not talk about it so much.
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'm not an actor. I'm really bad in front of a camera. It wouldn't work.
Cliches are what make you understand something.
I don't believe in development. I believe in pre-pre-production, so when I sit down with an idea for a movie, I'm thinking I'm going to make this film. I don't think about anything else.
I'm a closet geek.
If you do something that's different and quirky and original, it takes time for people to figure it out.
I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books.
So I think I sometimes will put a cliche in and then just pad it out so you're not noticing.
It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies.
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 used to be very much Jekyll-and-Hyde, where the Jekyll in me would say, 'Keep to the budget, be responsible,' and Hyde would be like ,'Ah, we can do an extra shot or an extra day.'
I've always loved 'Bond.' There were two franchises that I would always have dropped everything to do as a director. 'Bond' was one; 'Star Wars' was other.
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.
Some people are directors and I think they should stay behind the camera.
You either ignore the comic book and make a great movie or you stay very close to the comic book.
I'll never be a good writer, and no chance of being a good actor.
You need cliches. Cliches are what people respond to.
And writing I think is a gift that you have, the same as acting, in a way.
I'm a big believer that it doesn't matter what you call your company, nobody ever notices.
I think you should make a movie that has an audience.
My theory is that there's a knee-jerk reaction against technology in movie making.
I was so nervous about 'Kingsman,' I can't tell you, because when you do things different and fresh and fun and crazy, you don't know how people are going to react.
Most of the movies nominated for Oscars put me to sleep.
If it's scary, it's supposed to be scary. If it's funny, it's supposed to be funny. That's all I try to do.
High-concept one-liners were huge when I got my start in the film industry.
Some things that work in a comic don't work in a film, and vice versa.
I tried to buy the script of 'Hancock.' I loved it. The script was far darker and edgier than the movie.
When I did 'Stardust,' I was fighting the studio for things I believed were right.
