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" I'm not an actor. I'm really bad in front of a camera. It wouldn't work. "
Matthew Vaughn
Work
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Bad
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" 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. "
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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 think music is what takes the experience off the screen into your soul, into your head. "
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" When I did 'Stardust,' I was fighting the studio for things I believed were right. "
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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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" 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. "
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" Cliches are what make you understand something. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I will never sign anything which makes me have to do more than one film. "
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More
" High-concept one-liners were huge when I got my start in the film industry. "
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One-Liners
Industry
Got
" 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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Matter
Money
" You can't please everyone... If you make a good movie, that's all that matters. "
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You
Good Movie
Good
" I'll never be a good writer, and no chance of being a good actor. "
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Never
Actor
Chance
" I think it's easier to make a film with 200 million dollars than 960 grand. "
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Grand
Film
Think
" 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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Think
Funny
Cool
" I'm a big believer that it doesn't matter what you call your company, nobody ever notices. "
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Your
Big
Company
" I like the X-Men, otherwise I wouldn't be doing it. "
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Otherwise
Doing
X-Men
" I'm not a member of a minority but I can empathize with what's going on. "
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Member
Going
I Can
" 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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Out
Just
Sometimes
" I like doing as many special effects in camera, as much as possible. "
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Doing
Special
Possible
" 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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Responsible
Budget
Day
" 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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Bond
Movies
Shadow
" I'm a closet geek. "
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Closet
Geek
" 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. "
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" Crime, money, power, drugs - are all linked. "
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Crime
" 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. "
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" I had a philosophy, which may have been proven right, that directing isn't as hard as everyone says it is. "
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May