Matthew Vaughn

I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny.

It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies.

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 like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.

In novelas, sometimes you get the most ridiculous situations, but you make the best of it. But novelas are a very special genre.

Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.