If you have extremes of haves and have-nots where the gap keeps growing, the have-nots group together and create social disorder, as they can't see a way out of their situation.

If you offer me a job sitting in a Winnebago with make-up girls and free food, I'm probably going to take it.

I've always had a lot of time for servicemen. Yet there's been this bad relationship between civilians and the armed services. We say to soldiers, 'We want you when we want you, but stay away in peacetime. We're proud of you, but keep away from my daughter and don't come drinking in my pub.'

Some people figure that if they're part of a gang then they have less of a chance of being killed, because they are in larger numbers. But the problem with this is that it will lead to people doing stuff that they wouldn't usually do.

I always get very fit if I'm going away filming for two months in Afghanistan or wherever.

I have seen incredible bravery from very young guys, the young generation that people write off.

I think we have always had a fascination for gangs and gangsters, and I think we always will.