Matthew Vaughn, the filmmaker behind Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Layer Cake, Stardust and Kick-Ass, has been advising the Coalition Government on how to change the landscape of the British film industry by proposing the establishment of a new UK Government film fund.
He was the one who suggested Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt should bring the clapper board down on the UK Film Council (UKFC).
A few weeks ago, I wondered in this column about which disgruntled 'D-list director' was behind the plan to fold the UKFC.
I didn't know about Vaughn's involvement at the time - and the next day he confessed to me.
We laughed about it and arranged to meet at Pinewood Studios this week, where the director is about to begin shooting X Men: First Class for Fox with James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender and January Jones.
Interestingly, McAvoy was one of several actors who spoke out in defence of the UKFC.
'James and I have discussed this,' Vaughn told me. 'He's still in the movie. Just.'
He added: 'James is an actor, and actors don't necessarily know what's best for them. That's on the record.
'But he's a brilliant actor, and he'll be great in this film.'
Vaughn said the temperature on the debate needs to come down.
'The emotion needs to be reduced down to hard facts, and to what's best for everyone in the long term and not just the short term.'
He explained Britain has the best directors, writers, producers, actors and crews in the world.
'We also have the two biggest franchises of all time: Harry Potter and James Bond. You can't get more British product than Potter and Bond.
'Shot in England. Made by the British. But all the money goes back to America.'
At the moment, Britain doesn't benefit from money the big Hollywood studios make from films they shoot here.
Vaughn's idea is that major studios who have a hit movie on their hands should have to pay back any tax credits they have received - and also pay the government a share of their profits.
The government would then plough that money into a fund, managed by professional investors, who would then fund British films that meet certain criteria.
Vaughn, who has always supported the Conservative Party (colleagues call him Tory Boy, although not always to his face), thinks the UKFC is a gravy train.
Officials at the Culture Department assert the UKFC has spent more than £81 million on overheads since 2000.
That's half of the total it says it has invested in film (although the £81 million figure seems over the top to me, and other figures have clearly been bundled into it to discredit the UKFC).
However, Vaughn insists the devil is in the detail.
'Without being arrogant, I've had more successes on a ratio of movies being developed to those being made - and for making profit - than the whole of the UK Film Council. If I can do it, why can't they?'
Vaughn also claimed his tax credit proposal will actually hurt him.
'I used to benefit from the tax breaks, from where I'd pocket the profit.'
As it happens Tim Bevan, film producer and UKFC chairman, isn't that far behind Vaughn - although he's appalled at how the axe came down without consultation.
'All I want to see is somebody come up with a strategy because I haven't heard one yet.
'It's not going to be easy and, I suspect, it's not going to be a lot cheaper. Those are the two issues.
'The thing about the Film Council is, love it or hate it, everything was under one roof and you could have joined-up thinking.
'The critical thing, I think, for the purposes of the disbursement of lottery funding and tax credits, is to keep those two major things inside one place.'
Bevan, astutely, added such a place should be commercial 'and not an artistic place'.
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