Kick-Ass director, Matthew Vaughn was stopped on the rec carpet at the L.A. premiere of the aforementioned film and explained how Kick-Ass is a manifestation of what he would have done with X-Men 3 (which he was previously attached to), had he helmed the project instead of Brett Ratner.

Check out the video below, and the transcript after the jump.

Interview: Kick-Ass director, Matthew Vaughn

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“I tried to put all the ideas that ‘X-Men’ gave me into it and then working on ‘Thor’ [as well],” he said of the film. “I’ve been thinking about doing a comic book movie for a long, long time, and I was just bored of nearly doing it and not doing it. [‘Kick-Ass’] is like an explosion of everything coming together.”

“No offense to Ratner, but I just felt that [‘X-Men: The Last Stand’] needed more heart,” he said. “That’s what I thought was missing. I was a little bit shocked when I saw it.”

“That sort of thing makes an audience really fall in love with the characters,” Vaughn said of the need to make audiences feel for the superheroes they see onscreen rather than just root for them.

He added that he’s fortunate to have a cast of characters audiences are less familiar with.

“[It helps] when you don’t know who they are, and the first time you meet them is on the screen and you have no preconceptions about what they should be,” he said. “The rawer the process is, the better it can become.”