There's lots of different ways of writing stuff and lots of different mindsets to have, but I think when it's your own creation, it's more pleasurable because you have total control.

There's more to come. Series 4 [of Peaky Blinders] is coming soon. But I'm proud of making my hometown, which is considered to be completely unfashionable, slightly fashionable. People actually know where it is now.

I was 21, when I heard the story that inspired this [thriller Allied], and I wasn't even a screenwriter then.

I must have been about 11 when I read the book Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, which I read, over and over again.

Sometimes if you're a director, you want to believe that you're great and capable at all aspects - the technical side, the lights, everything - but I'm not.

With any period piece I think the thing to do is forget that it's not contemporary when you're writing and to have the characters feel as much as possible like characters that you would know.

It's great that the story [Allied] is set in the '40s because the '40s feel to it is completely appropriate.