When I'm writing, I am just doing what feels right for me.
I like to stay away from writing about good versus evil. I think the world is more complicated.
With the police thriller genre, people come to it with an expectation. It allows you to get away with a bit of violence, edginess, darkness.
I like to write about characters who are conflicted.
Part of me isn't that interested as a person and a viewer in people's personal lives. I'm much more interested in what people do in the workplace and what goals they set themselves. I guess that's why I write a lot of precinct drama.
I think that the audience is smart enough to know that just because a drama is relating to real-world parallels, it doesn't mean that its story is exactly that story.
I like to sit at my desk... sometimes I get inspiration when I'm going about my normal day-to-day life.
I always try and distinguish between facts and opinions.
I like the differences between American and British television dramas.
I don't normally think of a specific actor. I concentrate on the character, and then when we get into pre-production, that's how names come up.
Between the ages of 12 and 15, I wanted to be a pilot because I thought it would be glamorous and dangerous.
In my third year at medical school in Birmingham, I joined the Air Force as a medical cadet so that I was sponsored to become a doctor.
There is an apparatus set up to protect politicians, but those within that apparatus will have their own political views. I've got mates who are police officers and mates who are in the military, and they often have a very different view to the policy they're asked to carry out.
As a teenager, I read a lot of science-fiction, but then I read 'Catch-22' and 'The Catcher in the Rye' and started reading more literary fiction.
If we have friends over for dinner, I do the cooking. I like the pressure of a big meal and the technical challenges of a roast.
I come from gender-balanced workplaces. I started off working in medicine, and when I went through med school, it's 50/50 men and women. And when I started working as a doctor, it's 50/50 men and women. So I've always been very accustomed to women occupying pivotal roles in the professional environment.
There are great female role models out there, and I just feel very proud to be able to represent them in my work.
We're living in interesting times, where people seem to be able to say things which are contrary to what you would call rationalism.
I'm interested in institutions, particularly in the way institutions close ranks. They have hierarchies and their own ethics.
I write what I call precinct drama, and I tend to write things set in the workplace. Having an institution which gives a workplace its distinctive identity is really important to creating something which feels different.
