Matthew Vaughn Quotes

In all my 'Bond' films, everything you see there is fantastically real.

I love watching the Bond movies obviously and I grew up reading the books as a kid. I've always loved them because of that.

The first Bond movie I saw at cinemas was 'For Your Eyes Only' when I was almost 10. I got into the Fleming books after watching 'A View To A Kill' a few years later.

See, it's kind of like James Bond. There's a new James Bond every couple of years. Maybe I can do the new 'MacGyver' and put my own twist on it.

Marvel movies, are seeming slightly less exciting now that Star Wars has appeared and everything.

Clive Owen would be a fantastic James Bond. Any man who does it will have to weigh his odds - whether he can get in and get out.

One would think that it would be very easy, with an iconic character like James Bond, to keep making the films, but it hasn't been. But, it sure has been entertaining and rewarding.

I don't comment on the physics errors of 'Star Wars,' all right. I just - you let that one go.

I've always loved the Bond pictures. I have watched every single one. Movies don't get bigger or better than Bond, so I knew this was my opportunity to do a massive action picture with outrageous stunts.

I feel like the American years were my apprenticeship for doing a Bond movie.

I don't know how we had about eighteen international stars in it, all playing James Bond.

Whenever you do anything with Bond, you've got Cubby Broccoli and Sean Connery looking over your shoulder.

'License to Kill' is not one of the great Bond movies.

I'm a huge fan of the 'James Bond' genre.

I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at one time offered great musical opportunities.

I created Batman about 10 years before Ian Fleming created James Bond.

Honestly, not being evasive, but the great thing about Bond is that I have fifty years of movies - 23 movies and all the Ian Fleming novels and short stories, all of which are fodder. And when I'm working on the new Bond, I'm constantly going back to Fleming and the other movies - what are the bits and pieces, what are the resonances?

I've always loved the Bond films.

I mostly gave away what I had from the James Bond movie.

I haven't done the Star Wars kind of films.

I used to love the 'Star Trek' movies, 'Wrath of Khan' and stuff like that. Loved those movies when I was a kid. And 'Star Wars' obviously was hands-down probably - I mean I had the sheets. I was a big fan of that.

I grew up on the Bond movies. The first one I saw was 'Diamonds Are Forever,' when I was a kid. I just loved them to pieces.

I care about Bond and what happens to him. You cannot be connected with a character for this long and not have an interest. All the Bond films had their good points.

Watched Star Wars in 77 and that's when I got into watching films. I was just blown away by it.

May the Force be with J.J. I think he'll reinvent 'Star Wars,' like he did with 'Star Trek.'