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James Watkins Quotes

English - Director | May 20, 1973 -

'The Godfather' is the talismanic giant that hangs over everything in the gangster genre.

Gangster Over Everything Genre Giant

We think criminality is something that exists in somehow another world to us. But actually, there is an invisible criminal web in which we are all enveloped.

World Think Invisible Something Web

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

Television More Ambitious Novel Ever

I think audiences are far too sophisticated now to have an English actor putting on a Russian accent - it feels fake.

Think Fake Now Actor English Far

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

You Look Legs Last Criminal Element

In Zagreb, the Old Town really could be Prague. You go two hours to the coast to Opatija, and you really could be in the South of France, in the Croatian Riviera. And then you head down the coast towards Split, and you get into more Turkish architecture, so you can double Istanbul.

Architecture You Down Go More Head

It helps for actors if you have one director.

You Director Helps

The first series of 'McMafia' is very Alex Godman-centric and could continue to be, but we haven't even begun to explore the Middle East or Africa or even South America in detail. One of our ambitions would be to drop into some of these other places and, by doing so, bring the audience into a world that they wouldn't necessarily have been in.

Detail World America Doing Africa

Living in London, you feel the sense of how it has developed into a service city. People come here from around the world - both to launder their money and launder their reputations.

Service Money People City World You

Chemistry's a weird thing. You can see actors who are friends in real life but have no screen chemistry. Then there are actors who don't get on but have great chemistry.

Life Great Weird Friends You See

Where previously the international underworld was a world of local, often-warring mafia territories, it has become globalised. The criminal has become corporate, and the corporate has become criminal. Organised crime has become very organised indeed.

World Crime Become Mafia Criminal

If you think about the traditional mafia stories we grew up on, it is always about the death of criminal organisations - things like the 'Sopranos' - the last vestiges of once proud families subsumed by the modern era.

Death Proud Think You Mafia Always

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