[2015] it's a time that there's a clash of ideologies, similar to the Cold War. I think that a story like this has been waiting to be told, and I think it's a fresh look at the whole earth-shattering business of the collapse of the Soviet Union.

The sandstorm, which I think is an absolute triumph, could have been awkward. It's sex in a car, so who knows. And I think the rooftops look fantastic [in Allied].

No screenplay is possible, unless you get some attachment from somebody who's going to get it made.

Obviously, television is a writer's medium, so you get a lot more power and authority. With a film, the discipline is having a beginning, middle and end, and having it work in a specific space of time.

It was great fun to do because of the central character. With The Girl in the Spider's Web, the girl is really the central character. She's the whole thing.

What I wanted to do [in Allied] was get two characters who fall in love for real, across the barricade, and then it transcends the war.

It's such a gift when you know who you're writing for and you know that that actor is capable of so much that you can relax a bit.