It was great being brought up in a Glasgow working-class tenement. It wasn't miserable and it wasn't poverty stricken. It felt very safe, full of delights. I grew up in Springlands, where they made locomotives, and you could always hear industrial sounds, though they're gone now – there's no more industry.
Crime is interesting. It's huge and fascinating and it's what my business, TV and film, is largely based on. But the realities are tragic and in crime drama you rarely see the pain of bereavement or any consequences. It's reduced to a chess game.