Matthew Vaughn Quotes

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

- Matthew Vaughn

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.

- Matthew Vaughn

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

- Matthew Vaughn

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

- Matthew Vaughn

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

- Matthew Vaughn

I'm more of a comic-book movie fan than a comic book fan.

- Matthew Vaughn

You need cliches. Cliches are what people respond to.

- Matthew Vaughn

Cliches are what make you understand something.

- Matthew Vaughn

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

- Matthew Vaughn

High-concept one-liners were huge when I got my start in the film industry.

- Matthew Vaughn

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.

- Matthew Vaughn

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.

- Matthew Vaughn

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.'

- Matthew Vaughn

I'm not an actor. I'm really bad in front of a camera. It wouldn't work.

- Matthew Vaughn

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

- Matthew Vaughn

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

- Matthew Vaughn

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

- Matthew Vaughn

When I did 'Stardust,' I was fighting the studio for things I believed were right.

- Matthew Vaughn

If you do something that's different and quirky and original, it takes time for people to figure it out.

- Matthew Vaughn

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

- Matthew Vaughn

I'm a closet geek.

- Matthew Vaughn

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.

- Matthew Vaughn

I'm a Star Wars fanatic.

- Matthew Vaughn

Some things that work in a comic don't work in a film, and vice versa.

- Matthew Vaughn

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

- Matthew Vaughn

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

- Matthew Vaughn

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.

- Matthew Vaughn

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.

- Matthew Vaughn

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

- Matthew Vaughn

For me, I'm not Spielberg. I can't edit while filming another film.

- Matthew Vaughn

My theory is that there's a knee-jerk reaction against technology in movie making.

- Matthew Vaughn

I tried to buy the script of 'Hancock.' I loved it. The script was far darker and edgier than the movie.

- Matthew Vaughn

Most of the movies nominated for Oscars put me to sleep.

- Matthew Vaughn

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

- Matthew Vaughn

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

- Matthew Vaughn

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

- Matthew Vaughn

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.

- Matthew Vaughn

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.

- Matthew Vaughn

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.

- Matthew Vaughn

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

- Matthew Vaughn

I'm as conservative as they come.

- Matthew Vaughn

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

- Matthew Vaughn

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

- Matthew Vaughn