Quotes by Matthew Vaughn

• Music is half the film.
• It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies.
• I'm not a member of a minority but I can empathize with what's going on.
• People just want to watch movies that are entertaining, it doesn't matter what genre it is.
• 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.
• I'm as conservative as they come.
• 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.
• So I think I sometimes will put a cliche in and then just pad it out so you're not noticing.
• Some people are directors and I think they should stay behind the camera.
• You can't please everyone... If you make a good movie, that's all that matters.
• You need cliches. Cliches are what people respond to.
• I had a philosophy, which may have been proven right, that directing isn't as hard as everyone says it is.
• I'm a big believer that it doesn't matter what you call your company, nobody ever notices.
• 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.
• 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'll never be a good writer, and no chance of being a good actor.
• I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books.
• Cliches are what make you understand something.
• Crime, money, power, drugs - are all linked.
• I like doing as many special effects in camera, as much as possible.
• And writing I think is a gift that you have, the same as acting, in a way.
• I will never sign anything which makes me have to do more than one film.
• I think it's easier to make a film with 200 million dollars than 960 grand.
• I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny.
• I think music is what takes the experience off the screen into your soul, into your head.
• 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 think you should make a movie that has an audience.
• I like the X-Men, otherwise I wouldn't be doing it.