Quotes from 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.

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

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

I'm a Star Wars fanatic.

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

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

Music is half the film.

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

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

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

Cliches are what make you understand something.

You need cliches. Cliches are what people respond to.

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

I'm as conservative as they come.

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

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 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 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 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.

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.

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

I'm a closet geek.

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