Matthew Vaughn

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

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 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 think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it’s either cool or funny.

I’m a Star Wars fanatic.

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

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

Music is half the film.

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

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

Cliches are what make you understand something.

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

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

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

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 it’s easier to make a film with 200 million dollars than 960 grand.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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