72 Quotes by Matthew Vaughn

Music is half the film.

If you give the audience what they expect, they'll be bored. There are no rules: You do what you want while respecting the boundaries. You don't poke people in the eye; you do things they haven't seen before and make it accessible, funny and clever.

Every night I vow to work out in the morning. For the past three years, however, I have always found an excuse not to.

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.

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

I'm a Star Wars fanatic.

Ironically, I think action can be the dullest part of movies nowadays - and I love action movies!

People in LA seem to have no concept of the time outside of their city. I've been trained for thirty years in the film industry of having whether its agents, lawyers, actors, or whoever calling up all night.

People want fun and escapism at the moment. Look at the success of 'Guardians of the Galaxy'. I think Nolan kick-started a very dark, bleak style of superhero escapism, and I think people have had enough of it.