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

When you're watching, I find two things happen. You either watch a film and it's really good and then you think, "Why can't I do that?" Or you watch a film and it's not good, and you think, "Why am I doing this?" So either way, it feels like being at work.

I didn't direct [the Taboo episodes]. I wrote all of them.

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?

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

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

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.