I'll never be a good writer, and no chance of being a good actor.Collection: Chance
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.Collection: Teen
I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny.Collection: Cool
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.Collection: Funny
I had a philosophy, which may have been proven right, that directing isn't as hard as everyone says it is.
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.
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.
I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books.
I was inspired by all of it. 'The Avengers,' 'Harry Palmer,' 'The Prisoner,' 'The Man from UNCLE,' 'In Like Flint.' Of course, there's a huge shadow of Bond - Bond is the monolith of spy movies - but it's not just about Bond; there were a lot of other things that influenced me.
If you do something that's different and quirky and original, it takes time for people to figure it out.
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 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 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.
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 tried to buy the script of 'Hancock.' I loved it. The script was far darker and edgier than the movie.
Im as conservative as they come.Collection: Conservative
Every night I vow to work out in the morning. For the past three years, however, I have always found an excuse not to.Collection: Morning
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.Collection: Fun