Top 54 Quotes & Sayings by Matthew Vaughn
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American producer Matthew Vaughn.
Last updated on December 23, 2024.
And writing I think is a gift that you have, the same as acting, in a way.
It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies.
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.
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.
I'm a Star Wars fanatic.
If you do something that's different and quirky and original, it takes time for people to figure it out.
I like doing as many special effects in camera, as much as possible.
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.
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.
I tried to buy the script of 'Hancock.' I loved it. The script was far darker and edgier than the movie.
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.
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.
I will never sign anything which makes me have to do more than one film.
Some people are directors and I think they should stay behind the camera.
My theory is that there's a knee-jerk reaction against technology in movie making.
I had a philosophy, which may have been proven right, that directing isn't as hard as everyone says it is.
You need cliches. Cliches are what people respond to.
I'll never be a good writer, and no chance of being a good actor.
For me, I'm not Spielberg. I can't edit while filming another film.
Music is half the 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.
High-concept one-liners were huge when I got my start in the film industry.
I'm as conservative as they come.
You can't please everyone... If you make a good movie, that's all that matters.
I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny.
So I think I sometimes will put a cliche in and then just pad it out so you're not noticing.
I'm not an actor. I'm really bad in front of a camera. It wouldn't work.
I think music is what takes the experience off the screen into your soul, into your head.
Cliches are what make you understand something.
I think it's easier to make a film with 200 million dollars than 960 grand.
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.
When I did 'Stardust,' I was fighting the studio for things I believed were right.
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.
Most of the movies nominated for Oscars put me to sleep.
I'm not a member of a minority but I can empathize with what's going on.
I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books.
I'm more of a comic-book movie fan than a comic book fan.
You either ignore the comic book and make a great movie or you stay very close to the comic book.
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.
I like the X-Men, otherwise I wouldn't be doing it.
Some things that work in a comic don't work in a film, and vice versa.
Crime, money, power, drugs - are all linked.
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.
People just want to watch movies that are entertaining, it doesn't matter what genre it is.
I'm a closet geek.
Ironically, I think action can be the dullest part of movies nowadays - and I love action movies!
Im as conservative as they come.
Every night I vow to work out in the morning. For the past three years, however, I have always found an excuse not to.
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.
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.
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.
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