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

I'm very, very excited because I'm just completing Episode 6 of Series 4 [of Peaky Blinders], which again I think is the best yet. And I'm loving it and it's not like work, it's not like a labor, I love doing it, and the boys are coming back and they're loving the scripts.

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.

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.

I relish the eight-hour format of a single season because it gives you time to do that.

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

True stories are always good because they're so odd, and so unlikely.