As a screenwriter, you always have frustrations. It's just the nature of the job, and you have to live with it. Your vision is not going to be the same as the director's vision. It doesn't mean one is better… — James Watkins Copy Share Image
If you think about the traditional mafia stories we grew up on, it is always about the death of criminal organisations - things like… — James Watkins Copy Share Image
The opportunity to be able to tell long-form character stories is something that TV affords and is therefore a terrain that a lot of… — James Watkins Copy Share Image
We want 'McMafia' to be a tense gangster story but also a family story. It's a collusion of those two worlds. — James Watkins Copy Share Image
We think criminality is something that exists in somehow another world to us. But actually, there is an invisible criminal web in which we… — James Watkins Copy Share Image
As a screenwriter, you are so used to things going in directions that you wouldn't have taken, so to be able to say, 'This… — James Watkins Copy Share Image
Parents fear for their children. Absolutely, I think it's a deep and troubling theme to explore. — James Watkins Copy Share Image
There are a lot of horror films out there that are nasty, but what's nasty isn't necessarily scary. — James Watkins Copy Share Image
If you look at 'The Sopranos,' there's this notion of a criminal element on its last legs. — James Watkins Copy Share Image
If you look around in London, there is a lot of dirty money. People see it as a safe haven: a bolthole to rely… — James Watkins Copy Share Image
Television is ever more ambitious, more akin to the Victorian novel with multiple narratives and more discursive material. — James Watkins Copy Share Image
There's nothing worse in television than what I call 'poor man's Jerry Bruckheimer.' — James Watkins Copy Share Image
I've got lots of friends who would just think, 'Horror movies - they're crap, aren't they?' I think there's a cultural snobbery more than… — James Watkins Copy Share Image
