I read Ann Cleeves's books and think the way she paints Shetland is very interesting. — Douglas Henshall Artist Copy Share Image
I wanted the world when I was 20, and when I took stock at 40 I realised I hadn't come anywhere close… — Douglas Henshall Copy Share Image
The Scandis blew the crime genre out of the water and the Americans have been doing interesting things with it for years. — Douglas Henshall Americans Copy Share Image
I'm sure there are people who associate Iona with what they want it to be but for me it's just a nice… — Douglas Henshall Copy Share Image
One of my pet hates is people re-Tweeting praise, I loathe it more than anything else in the world. — Douglas Henshall Copy Share Image
In some respects, I was almost a country boy. I ran around in streams and rivers and all that sort of thing. — Douglas Henshall Copy Share Image
I always wanted to do good work, but not in order to buy big houses and big cars. I just wanted to… — Douglas Henshall Books Copy Share Image
My ma wanted to go and have a wee look at where all the Scottish kings had been buried. So we traipsed… — Douglas Henshall Copy Share Image
God, when I was about nine or ten years old, my whole summers were spent playing tennis. I was there from when… — Douglas Henshall God Copy Share Image
What the Americans have done is refuse to back down. They've refused to make the cheapest, lowest common denominator forms of entertainment… — Douglas Henshall Americans Copy Share Image
No, my ma died nearly 20 years ago. I still miss her, and I still think about her a lot but the… — Douglas Henshall Memories Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of the time when you see rape on the television it is gratuitous and there to either bolster viewing figures… — Douglas Henshall Copy Share Image
I could never call myself a Chelsea fan. I'm a St Mirren supporter. But after about 35 years of watching St Mirren,… — Douglas Henshall Football Copy Share Image
It's one of those weird things you start doing: you get to have on-screen teenage children and play policemen. That's what happens… — Douglas Henshall Children Copy Share Image
With 'Shallow Grave' people realised that you could set a film in Scotland and it didn't have to be about leaky boats… — Douglas Henshall Film Copy Share Image
When you've got an audience, there's a silence in there that you don't find anywhere else. And it's really powerful. People are… — Douglas Henshall Audience Copy Share Image
