Matthew Vaughn Quotes

Just getting movies made is difficult because it takes a lot of money; I mean, it costs more money to make one movie than most bands will spend on every single record of their entire career; it's a huge undertaking.

I hope to make the most expensive movie in history at some point!

God, I'd love to do a big commercial movie that made a lot of money and whose plot was interesting too.

For the most part, studio movies have huge budgets. They don't do anything under 30 to 40 million. When you have that much money at stake, you have so many people breathing down your neck.

The film business has so many twists and turns that it's a miracle any film gets made.

When you do bigger films, the financiers take more risks.

'G.I. Joe' is a $200 million movie. The makeup trailer was as big as my house! It was a whole other different production. It blows me away. I'm just going, 'Wow, I'm in that.'

With movies, it always feels like such a long shot getting it made.

We have so many films that we can fit into the slate a year, and we spend $100 million on those films in order to make $400 million dollars. We don't spend $20 million in hopes of eking out $40 million.

At the end of the day, there is a lot of money that gets put into films.

As long as your movies don't lose money, you'll always be able to make them.

The movie business is not about the money. Of course, you need money to make the movie. If you have a small budget, adapt yourself. Having $200 million dollars doesn't ensure that you're definitely going to make a good movie. There's so many examples that prove that.

The only difference from one $100 million budget film to another is which of the 12 box stars are getting $20 million to be in it.

Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film.

I tried to film 'Leaves of Grass' in Oklahoma, but it was literally about a million dollars less to shoot in Louisiana.

You only have so much money to shoot a movie with.

I'd just as soon do a big-budget movie as an independent one.

I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films.

Unless a Western's made money - doesn't matter who made the money, doesn't matter what the subject is - if the last one didn't make any money, you can't make another one for a four-year period. Westerns more than any genre.

You could just do independent movies, but I like bigger kind of studio movies, at least some of them.

Since Star Wars, that film's success led to bigger budgets, more hardware, that the great movies like the ones I did, which were studio movies, are now independent movies. They range from half a million to several million, and a lot of those have very interesting roles.

The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking.

The core of the movie business remains intact and it's not descending in scope. Studios want movies that are bigger than ever.

I'm kind of shocked that it's taken Hollywood so long to realize that so many great movie talents can come out of television. One of the reasons they do is that on TV you don't have the luxury of a film's big budget, and people have to compensate with creativity.

'Carrie' was a pretty big-budget movie at a real studio, with a director that had already done a bunch of things and had some notoriety, and Stephen King was the writer.