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Horses do sense things way before people.
I'm a massive Bowie fan, always have been.
I'm not a big fan of prequels to be honest.
I want to be influenced by the world not TV or film.
I never set out to write a script that is 'topical.'
Expect the unexpected, is what I'd say about 'Taboo.'
What Westerns did was to take a world and mythologise it.
I didn't direct [the Taboo episodes]. I wrote all of them.
Peaky' is the luckiest project I've ever been involved with.
There's nothing wrong with the classic ways of adapting stuff.
Any question about narrative storytelling is answered by Dickens.
True stories are always good because they're so odd, and so unlikely.
Manchester's history is cotton and wool. Birmingham's is iron and steel.
Spaghetti Junction is the most beautiful thing you've ever seen at night.
In history there's what's written down and there's what actually happened.
I find in Britain people are both more arty and more willing to rip you off.
The problem with prequels is you're limiting yourself as to where it can go.
I just don't like cinemas very much. And when I do see a film it depresses me.
Writing, when it works, one needs to access whatever it is that creates dreams.
I've had more reaction to 'Peaky' than anything. People react really intensely.
I want to make people see that evil is seductive and that we need to be careful.
The great thing about America is that people take its history and mythologise it.
There are always people who are doing things that don't fit the official accounts.
If I choose to direct something, it's because I don't think it would get accepted.
The story [of Allied] stayed with me, like a stray dog outside the office, waiting.
Locke' is a different way of making a film as well as being a different sort of film.
From the age of about 8 to the age of about 15, I was obsessed with Native Americans.
I relish the eight-hour format of a single season because it gives you time to do that.
I will never unravel the mystery of how a script gets into the hands of certain people.
There's been a big black hole in the middle of the country as far as TV production goes.
The things that are considered to be respectable have their roots in unrespectable things.
In terms of the symbolism, I think that if you do it right, writing is a bit like dreaming.
I do lots of projects in film and TV. You have some that are lucky, and some that are unlucky.
No screenplay is possible, unless you get some attachment from somebody who's going to get it made.
I was doing two things at once for quite a long time. I was working in television and writing novels.
My mum was a bookies' runner at nine years old and my dad's uncles were Peaky Blinders and gangsters.
It's great that the story [Allied] is set in the '40s because the '40s feel to it is completely appropriate.
There have been times when I've shaved twice in the same morning because I've forgotten I've shaved already.
I was 21, when I heard the story that inspired this [thriller Allied], and I wasn't even a screenwriter then.
Taboo' certainly isn't a commentary on other types of period drama. It's just a different way of tackling one.
I must have been about 11 when I read the book Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, which I read, over and over again.
I'm a big Birmingham City supporter and seeing the fans dressed as Peaky Blinders is one of my proudest moments.
My dad's uncles were illegal bookmakers who were known in the area as Peaky Blinders, that's the stories I heard.
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 whole process of filmmaking can be chaotic, but if you can have an enthusiastic cast, you're pretty much there.
So many American and international producers want to shoot in the U.K. because of our crew base and tax incentives.
Closed Circuit' came out of a general anxiety about surveillance. Government surveillance and private surveillance.
There has been a tendency only to deal with a certain social class when it comes to stories more than 100 years ago.
If you've read something brilliant, it's good. It's good to look out the window and see what's going on in the world.
I'm very bad at watching anything. I'm bad at going to theaters; I can't watch my own stuff; I watch a lot of sports.