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Music is half the film.
I'm a Star Wars fanatic.
Im as conservative as they come.
Crime, money, power, drugs - are all linked.
Cliches are what make you understand something.
I like the X-Men, otherwise I wouldn't be doing it.
You need cliches. Cliches are what people respond to.
I think you should make a movie that has an audience.
Most of the movies nominated for Oscars put me to sleep.
I'm more of a comic-book movie fan than a comic book fan.
It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies.
I'll never be a good writer, and no chance of being a good actor.
For me, I'm not Spielberg. I can't edit while filming another film.
I like doing as many special effects in camera, as much as possible.
Some things that work in a comic don't work in a film, and vice versa.
I'm not a member of a minority but I can empathize with what's going on.
I will never sign anything which makes me have to do more than one film.
Some people are directors and I think they should stay behind the camera.
And writing I think is a gift that you have, the same as acting, in a way.
High-concept one-liners were huge when I got my start in the film industry.
I think it's easier to make a film with 200 million dollars than 960 grand.
You can't please everyone... If you make a good movie, that's all that matters.
When I did 'Stardust,' I was fighting the studio for things I believed were right.
My theory is that there's a knee-jerk reaction against technology in movie making.
I think music is what takes the experience off the screen into your soul, into your head.
I'm a big believer that it doesn't matter what you call your company, nobody ever notices.
People just want to watch movies that are entertaining, it doesn't matter what genre it is.
So I think I sometimes will put a cliche in and then just pad it out so you're not noticing.
You either ignore the comic book and make a great movie or you stay very close to the comic book.
Ironically, I think action can be the dullest part of movies nowadays - and I love action movies!
I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books.
I tried to buy the script of 'Hancock.' I loved it. The script was far darker and edgier than the movie.
If you do something that's different and quirky and original, it takes time for people to figure it out.
I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny.
I had a philosophy, which may have been proven right, that directing isn't as hard as everyone says it is.
If it's scary, it's supposed to be scary. If it's funny, it's supposed to be funny. That's all I try to do.
Every night I vow to work out in the morning. For the past three years, however, I have always found an excuse not to.
What I learned very quickly is that if you get it right in the first two or three takes, it's not going to get that much better.
So I am concerned about the amount of time we have to make it, cause it doesn't matter how much money you have, you can't create more time.
If you do something that's not pigeonholed, it gets thrown into the 'We don't know what this is' bin, and so let's not talk about it so much.
I've always loved 'Bond.' There were two franchises that I would always have dropped everything to do as a director. 'Bond' was one; 'Star Wars' was other.
I was so nervous about 'Kingsman,' I can't tell you, because when you do things different and fresh and fun and crazy, you don't know how people are going to react.
Being a producer, I deal with a lot of different directors, and some of them would drive me insane with all the different histrionics, and the mystique that they carry.
I think there's a time in your life where you don't feel like you fit in. I think everyone has that when you're a teenager, especially, and especially in the society we live in.
I used to be very much Jekyll-and-Hyde, where the Jekyll in me would say, 'Keep to the budget, be responsible,' and Hyde would be like ,'Ah, we can do an extra shot or an extra day.'
I don't believe in development. I believe in pre-pre-production, so when I sit down with an idea for a movie, I'm thinking I'm going to make this film. I don't think about anything else.
I learned very quickly that the hard thing in life is to make good films. Technically, filmmaking is the camera and the actor telling the story and that's what I'm more interested in doing.
People in LA seem to have no concept of the time outside of their city. I've been trained for thirty years in the film industry of having whether its agents, lawyers, actors, or whoever calling up all night.
People want fun and escapism at the moment. Look at the success of Guardians of the Galaxy. I think Nolan kick-started a very dark, bleak style of superhero escapism, and I think people have had enough of it.
If you give the audience what they expect, they'll be bored. There are no rules: You do what you want while respecting the boundaries. You don't poke people in the eye; you do things they haven't seen before and make it accessible, funny and clever.