Matthew Vaughn Quotes

I just really loved films and thought I should be writing screenplays.

My approach to making movies is different than other people, because I just write a lot of screenplays. I'm constantly writing screenplays.

As a writer, you're not even at the party when you work in film. At best, you're the one laying out the canapes.

It seems to me the big weakness in most films is the writing. You can learn directing, but you can't learn writing.

Directing is not on my agenda, but writing is. I want to write everything from action, superhero films to quiet dramas, smaller films.

The time it would take me to write a screenplay it would take me the time to make two films. I would rather make the movies, and I'm a better moviemaker than I would be writer.

One day I had an idea for a movie. Everything came after that.

A great screenplay makes everybody step up to the bar and deliver.

The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story.

I like making movies.

I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.

No other aspect of filmmaking has tempted me to do a film other than the script and the story itself.

Film-makers are greedy people - we want good stories and good subjects.

These days, you don't need a song or glamour to make your film work. It is all about a good story.

I'd love to do writing for Hollywood.

I'm not saying I'm a writer, but I've been in movies for a long time, and I think I could write a script for a movie.

I make different films now.

I think I might want to get into development, as in developing my own sort of piece, whether it be for the stage or the big screen or for television.

Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.

I guess I would model myself after the Bill Condons, the Frank Darabonts and the David Nutters if I were to direct a feature, which I would love to do, by the way.

Since I was a child, I've liked telling stories. Maybe because my father's a director, I grew up loving stories. I'm not good at spinning them at a dinner table because I do go on a bit, but I love writing them, and directing is just a way of editing the story.

I had grown up loving movies and had always wanted to write them.

There are different reasons to make movies.

A good script and perfect casting, that's 90 percent of the work.

Directing was easy for me because I was a writer director and did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay.