Matthew Vaughn Quotes

I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with.

I don't know anything about directing, but if you love actors, know your story and hire a great company, then anyone can direct a film.

I want to make good films; I don't want to make films for the moment.

To make movies you just have to want it enough. You have to have the passion for telling stories. You have to get by the love-of-movies aspect. You can't just be a movie fan.

My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot.

I'd grab the camera and tell people what to do, and when I was 14, someone told me that it was called directing.

I have definitely been curious and involved in the process; even as a young actor. I was always looking at where the camera was, what story it was telling. And as my experience grew, I wanted to know even more.

I've always been fascinated with everything behind the camera and in front.

Eventually, I would love to direct, but not anytime soon. I just love the storytelling aspect.

Making a movie is universal. Directing a movie is universal; it's a universal language.

I have realised there are so many stories which can be told beautifully on screen. It's important to be part of such films.

Everything that is somehow related to direction and filmmaking fascinates me, like cinematography.

I want to be the person who eventually doesn't have to be in front of the camera. I can be behind the camera and really change things cinematically, and this is giving me an opportunity to do something behind the camera, which I really want to maximize.

For me, filmmaking combines everything. That's the reason I've made cinema my life's work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But a film is still a film.

I've always loved films, and I always felt like a storyteller. I left Norway after high school and moved to Manhattan and went to film school in Manhattan. That's when I really found out that this was my calling and what I wanted to do.

A camera is a camera, a shot is a shot, how you tell the story is the main thing.

Pretty early on in making the first movie I realized that this is what I wanted to do. I felt like by that time I just found my niche, like this is what I was supposed to be doing. So I completely submerged myself into the world of watching movies, making my own movies, buying video cameras and lights. When I wasn't making a movie, I was making my own movies. When I wasn't making movies, I was watching movies. I was going back and studying film and looking back at guys that were perceived as great guys that I can identify with. It just became my life.

Filmmaking is to me very similar to being in a café somewhere in Paris and looking at the people walking by.

My god is narrative filmmaking.

Even with college, the reason I wanted to go so badly is because I wanted to major in film. I want to take screenwriting classes and learn more about behind the scenes stuff, because I love people like Steve Carell and Kristen Wiig who are able to write a lot of their own material and be so involved in everything they do.

To make a film is easy; to make a good film is war. To make a very good film is a miracle.

The great thing about having spent all this time on film sets is that I've been able to watch directors and how they work. I now know that this is what I want to do as well: to tell stories visually. But it's definitely my vision that I want to put across, nobody else's.

For me, I see filmmaking as art.

I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.

I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.