Matthew Vaughn Quotes

The Weinsteins believe in test screenings. I don't. I don't think good films are made that way. Call me crazy, but I'd like to think you need a singular vision to make good art.

If I get a note on my script or my films, what I say to a studio executive is that, 'You know, this is the film of my legacy, and I never want to be sitting in a theater looking up on the screen and seeing something that I don't believe in.' I will never do that.

I would always rather do a mediocre script with a great filmmaker than a great script with a mediocre filmmaker.

Some of my best experiences are with writer/directors. Guy Ritchie is one. I feel they have a clearer view of what they want to do. They haven't got to try and interpret someone's writing; it's all theirs. I really admire that.

All these directors, and I would include the Coen brothers and Quentin, have a very unique vision of what they want. They listen to ideas and make people feel like everyone is making the film.

With a film, you try to keep your vision in it. I think with 'The American' and 'Control' I managed to do that.

When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.

Studios never put pressure. They know the kind of films I want to make.

As a director, my job is to spend money, and the producer's is to save money. Masoom, Bandit Queen and the first Queen Elizabeth have been my most uncompromised films.

The reason I took on directing a film myself was because, no matter how skilful a director was or how much I liked the film, there'd always be beats where I'd go, 'Oh... well, that's skilful, in a way, but it doesn't get the flavour I'd intended in the script.'

You can't make a film for your personal satisfaction. That is why I detest the cinema of people like Mani Kaul.

For me it sounds weird saying that the filmmakers respect the film. I don't imagine that there's other ways to make a film, but unfortunately there is.

Film is a collaborative process, absolutely, but I am a control freak.

I try to find the right director who won't compromise his or anyone else's integrity, and yet be political enough to give the studio what they want, yet put up a fight to maintain that integrity.

You can't be trying to make a film that pleases all people, you know, so it's not a concern of mine.

For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.

To me, the director is the most important, rather than the story.

There is often a great disparity between a director's personal style and the movies he makes.

I don't make movies because I think audiences will want to go see them.

I have a very clear vision, and I come from film, where director is God, so if there's a clash, it's painful.

When you make a movie, you can only make the movie that you would want to see.

The director is the channel through which a motion picture reaches the screen.

The rules are: The only ego is the film, and you have to serve the film.

The struggle of making a film for any studio is the fact that the producers and the studio have an idea of what the movie should be, but that is especially the case when the director is being replaced three weeks before principal photography. The challenge for me was to make sure that was my version of 'The Wolfman.' And I've done that. I think.

I'm not mad about movies, there are too many people involved in the making of them, and they lack a definitive creative focus.