Matthew Vaughn Quotes
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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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Crime, money, power, drugs - are all linked.
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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'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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For me, I'm not Spielberg. I can't edit while filming another film.
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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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You either ignore the comic book and make a great movie or you stay very close to the comic book.
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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'm as conservative as they come.
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You need cliches. Cliches are what people respond to.
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I like doing as many special effects in camera, as much as possible.
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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 think music is what takes the experience off the screen into your soul, into your head.
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I like the X-Men, otherwise I wouldn't be doing it.
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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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My theory is that there's a knee-jerk reaction against technology in movie making.
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Music is half the film.
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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 a Star Wars fanatic.
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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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And writing I think is a gift that you have, the same as acting, in a way.
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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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I'll never be a good writer, and no chance of being a good actor.
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I'm not an actor. I'm really bad in front of a camera. It wouldn't work.