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" 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. "

Matthew Vaughn

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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. "

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

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

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" When I did 'Stardust,' I was fighting the studio for things I believed were right. "

" High-concept one-liners were huge when I got my start in the film industry. "

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

" I'm a big believer that it doesn't matter what you call your company, nobody ever notices. "

" 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. "

" I'm a closet geek. "

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

" I think you should make a movie that has an audience. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

Matthew Vaughn

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" I'm a Star Wars fanatic. "

" 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. "

" My theory is that there's a knee-jerk reaction against technology in movie making. "

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

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

" It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies. "

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

" You need cliches. Cliches are what people respond to. "

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

" Music is half the film. "

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

" Some things that work in a comic don't work in a film, and vice versa. "

" 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. "

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