Directing Quote by James Watkins

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

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

We want 'McMafia' to be a tense gangster story but also a family story. It's a collusion of those two worlds.

— James Watkins

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

People like to see their lives mythologized in some way.

— James Watkins

Directing is an act of interpretation.

— James Watkins

Parents fear for their children. Absolutely, I think it's a deep and troubling theme to explore.

— James Watkins

There are a lot of horror films out there that are nasty, but what's nasty isn't necessarily scary.

— James Watkins

If you look at 'The Sopranos,' there's this notion of a criminal element on its last legs.

— James Watkins

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

Television is ever more ambitious, more akin to the Victorian novel with multiple narratives and more discursive material.

— James Watkins

I don't really watch a load of 'Game Of Thrones.'

— James Watkins