Tommy Shelby

“We can be a catalyst for change,” says Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight

Steven Knight speaks onstage at the RTS London Convention

All you need to be a writer, according to Leonard Cohen, is “arrogance and inexperience”. Quoting this from the RTS Convention stage, Steven Knight, added: “It’s so true. Arrogance, you need. Inexperience? You don’t know what you shouldn’t be doing, and it’s good to not find out.”

BBC News’s Katie Razzall asked him: “You must have learned things along the way?”

“I try not to,” he replied.