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.

Expect the unexpected, is what I'd say about Taboo. It's different. I don't think you've seen anything like it. It's getting incredible responses, so fingers crossed.

Whenever I see a cut of a film and something is gone, I don't notice it unless it obviously should have been kept.

[The film Woman Walks Ahead] is from a long time ago. I wrote that ages ago. It looks gorgeous and Jessica [Chastain] is so good that I've got high hopes.

I'm not suggesting that ours [series] is unique in that, but they can begin to have that depth, that gravity, they can spend some time, so it's a bit more like reading a good novel, if you like.

I always thought it would never happen. And then, it became possible. In between commissions, I wrote it as an original screenplay [Allied].

East India Company weren't an evil organization that went around deliberately oppressing people, but they were driven by profit, and how familiar is that now?