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So many American and international producers want to shoot in the U.K. because of our crew base and tax incentives.

Peaky' has attracted a lot of attention from different disciplines in the arts. It was originally going to be a ballet, which is Ballet Rambert, and there is also a lot of music artists who offer their music to the show to be used on the soundtrack.

There used to be grandparents who would say that if you were misbehaving the Peaky Blinders would get you, they were the bogeymen.

My dad's uncles were illegal bookmakers who were known in the area as Peaky Blinders, that's the stories I heard.

Well directing TV is very time-consuming, so if you are going to direct TV, a season will take a year out of your life.

With TV, your structure is determined by the series not the episode. You can have incident without consequence to the character, but keep your eye on the ticking clock of the series.

I'm not a big fan of prequels to be honest.

I think the best actors do both. I think they fulfill what you want them to do, in terms of the vision for the whole piece. And then they always bring something that does surprise you and shock you.

Any question about narrative storytelling is answered by Dickens.

There's a convention in English stuff that if something is more than 100 years old, people have to say 'do not' instead of 'don't. They have to say 'will not' instead of 'won't.' People are speaking in a way that is not accessible or normal. And people didn't ever speak like that.

Peaky' is a very personal thing for me because it's based on stories that I was told as a kid by my parents. At the very beginning, I tried to have other writers involved but it just didn't work.

There's no writers room, or any other writer involved. I write everything from beginning to end. Maybe it's just me not being able to let go of something, especially with 'Peaky.'

You can make somebody bad for a long time, and people love it when they then do one good thing and it's almost like a triumph. Actors seem to enjoy it more.

I was doing two things at once for quite a long time. I was working in television and writing novels.

I think it's a bit like saying a painter does a painting everyone loves and it's 40% blue paint, so from now on you have to paint paintings that are 40% blue. That's the film industry at its most blunt, which is why it's constantly bats and spiders and superheroes.

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.

I think certain periods of history don't get dealt with because I think historians, and it's their job, but they look back and look for patterns. They look for sequences and they look for reasons, and certain periods of history don't fit with the general pattern of 1500 to the 20th century, during which there's the creation of the United States.

I think the East India Company represents what we would think of as a very modern approach to the world where everything was counted, every penny was counted.

I just don't like cinemas very much. And when I do see a film it depresses me.

I find in Britain people are both more arty and more willing to rip you off.

I think an under-recognized fact is that TV has changed because the screens have, we now have these massive screen in our homes... so it's worth making your show look good.

I've had more reaction to 'Peaky' than anything. People react really intensely.

There's such a wealth of literature from the 18th century and 19th century, George Eliot... Jane Austen... that's all about a genteel high society, relationships, all of that stuff. There wasn't ever really, apart from Dickens, a literary evocation of working class life.

No, I don't actually look at Twitter.

Whenever I went to L.A. the first thing people said in the meeting, no matter what it was about, was how much they loved 'Peakys.' So Hollywood was really going for it which is always a good start. Also Snoop Dogg is a big fan.

There's always a concern over budget with film too but people are more extravagant when they're making a feature. In television everything's tight, everything's paired down and it's just a question of making it look expensive.

I'm a big Birmingham City supporter and seeing the fans dressed as Peaky Blinders is one of my proudest moments.

In the States a lot of Hispanic and black audiences are gravitating towards 'Peaky Blinders.' A mate of went into a bar in Santa Monica and sent me a photo of four blokes dressed as Peakies - they meet every week for a 'Peaky Blinders' evening.

Spaghetti Junction is the most beautiful thing you've ever seen at night.

Manchester's history is cotton and wool. Birmingham's is iron and steel.

In history there's what's written down and there's what actually happened.

There are always people who are doing things that don't fit the official accounts.

There's nothing wrong with the classic ways of adapting stuff.

Taboo' certainly isn't a commentary on other types of period drama. It's just a different way of tackling one.

I think it's always good not to listen to what the rules are supposed to be about the arc of the character and the third acts and all this stuff.

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