Matthew Vaughn Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Matthew Vaughn:
I'm not a member of a minority but I can empathize with what's going on.
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I had a philosophy, which may have been proven right, that directing isn't as hard as everyone says it is.
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I'm a closet geek.
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People just want to watch movies that are entertaining, it doesn't matter what genre it is.
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You can't please everyone... If you make a good movie, that's all that matters.
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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.
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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.
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Some things that work in a comic don't work in a film, and vice versa.
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I'm as conservative as they come.
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I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books.
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My theory is that there's a knee-jerk reaction against technology in movie making.
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And writing I think is a gift that you have, the same as acting, in a way.
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I'll never be a good writer, and no chance of being a good actor.
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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.
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Cliches are what make you understand something.
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So I think I sometimes will put a cliche in and then just pad it out so you're not noticing.
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Crime, money, power, drugs - are all linked.
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I'm more of a comic-book movie fan than a comic book fan.
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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.
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I think music is what takes the experience off the screen into your soul, into your head.
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I tried to buy the script of 'Hancock.' I loved it. The script was far darker and edgier than the movie.
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I think you should make a movie that has an audience.
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I'm a Star Wars fanatic.
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High-concept one-liners were huge when I got my start in the film industry.
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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.
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I will never sign anything which makes me have to do more than one film.
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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.
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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.'
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It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies.
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I like doing as many special effects in camera, as much as possible.
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I like the X-Men, otherwise I wouldn't be doing it.
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You need cliches. Cliches are what people respond to.
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I'm a big believer that it doesn't matter what you call your company, nobody ever notices.
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For me, I'm not Spielberg. I can't edit while filming another film.
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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.
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Most of the movies nominated for Oscars put me to sleep.
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Some people are directors and I think they should stay behind the camera.
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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.
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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.
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If you do something that's different and quirky and original, it takes time for people to figure it out.
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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.
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I think it's easier to make a film with 200 million dollars than 960 grand.
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You either ignore the comic book and make a great movie or you stay very close to the comic book.
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When I did 'Stardust,' I was fighting the studio for things I believed were right.
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Music is half the film.
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I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny.
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I'm not an actor. I'm really bad in front of a camera. It wouldn't work.
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