Locke' was sort of myself trying to find out if you could give yourself the maximum number of obstacles to make enough drama and seeing if you could do it.
In history there's what's written down and there's what actually happened.
Manchester's history is cotton and wool. Birmingham's is iron and steel.
I will never unravel the mystery of how a script gets into the hands of certain people.
I do lots of projects in film and TV. You have some that are lucky, and some that are unlucky.
True stories are always good because they're so odd, and so unlikely. It's always good to have a world that people don't know about - a world that hasn't yet been done. It's like treading on fresh snow. You're the first one there. It always feels good to be dealing with a period of history or a world that no one else has dealt with.
