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Matthew Vaughn [1971-0] American

Rank: 103
Producer, Film producer

Matthew Allard de Vere Drummond is an English film producer, director, and screenwriter. He is best known for producing such films as Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch and directing the films Layer Cake, Stardust, Kick-Ass, X-Men: First Class, and Kingsman: The Secret Service.

Cool, Society, Teen

Quote	Tags	Rank
Crime, money, power, drugs - are all linked.		101
You can't please everyone... If you make a good movie, that's all that matters.		102
I had a philosophy, which may have been proven right, that directing isn't as hard as everyone says it is.		103
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.		104
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.	Society, Teen	105
I like doing as many special effects in camera, as much as possible.		106
Music is half the film.		107
I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny.	Cool	108
I'm a Star Wars fanatic.		109
People just want to watch movies that are entertaining, it doesn't matter what genre it is.		110
I'm a big believer that it doesn't matter what you call your company, nobody ever notices.		111
I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books.		112
You need cliches. Cliches are what people respond to.		113
Cliches are what make you understand something.		114
Some people are directors and I think they should stay behind the camera.		115
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.		116
I think music is what takes the experience off the screen into your soul, into your head.		117
I think you should make a movie that has an audience.		118
I'm as conservative as they come.		119
I will never sign anything which makes me have to do more than one film.		120
You either ignore the comic book and make a great movie or you stay very close to the comic book.		121
I like the X-Men, otherwise I wouldn't be doing it.		122
So I think I sometimes will put a cliche in and then just pad it out so you're not noticing.		123
And writing I think is a gift that you have, the same as acting, in a way.		124
I'll never be a good writer, and no chance of being a good actor.		125
It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies.		126
I think it's easier to make a film with 200 million dollars than 960 grand.		201
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.		202
I'm not a member of a minority but I can empathize with what's going on.		203
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.		204
For me, I'm not Spielberg. I can't edit while filming another film.		205
If you do something that's different and quirky and original, it takes time for people to figure it out.		206
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.		207
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.		208
I'm not an actor. I'm really bad in front of a camera. It wouldn't work.		209
My theory is that there's a knee-jerk reaction against technology in movie making.		210
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.		211
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.		212
Most of the movies nominated for Oscars put me to sleep.		213
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.		214
High-concept one-liners were huge when I got my start in the film industry.		215
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.'		216
Some things that work in a comic don't work in a film, and vice versa.		217
I'm a closet geek.		218
I'm more of a comic-book movie fan than a comic book fan.		219
I tried to buy the script of 'Hancock.' I loved it. The script was far darker and edgier than the movie.		220
When I did 'Stardust,' I was fighting the studio for things I believed were right.		221

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