A biography for Douglas Henshallhasn’t been written yet.
“Where I was brought up, if you were walking down the street and you looked at someone and they looked at you, you acknowledged them.”
“Sometimes it's easy for things get away from you, a little bit, if you have too many people coming in all the time, trying to put their mark on it. If something is successful, you don't have to do that. All you have to do is keep doing what you're doing, or have been doing.”
“When I was growing up in the 1970s, my dad wouldn't take me to Ibrox or Parkhead because of all the sectarianism.”
“The Scandis blew the crime genre out of the water and the Americans have been doing interesting things with it for years.”
“Fatherhood, parenthood, is something that completely overwhelms you and absorbs you, and you just have to be the best dad that you can be.”
“What the Americans have done is refuse to back down. They've refused to make the cheapest, lowest common denominator forms of entertainment for TV and instead have championed television drama as an important part of our culture.”
“Nobody aspired to be an actor where I came from and I didn't think I would get in anywhere.”
“I read Ann Cleeves's books and think the way she paints Shetland is very interesting.”
“No, my ma died nearly 20 years ago. I still miss her, and I still think about her a lot but the memories I have are warm, rather than melancholic or tinged with sadness.”
“I don't think I am someone who sits on someone else's coat tails while others do worthwhile work.”
“For me, the best thing is the young actors that come in to the series as to see the depth and breadth of talent coming into the business is fantastic.”
“It must be terribly odd if you spend most of your time on somewhere like Shetland and come to a big city.”
“One of my pet hates is people re-Tweeting praise, I loathe it more than anything else in the world.”
“We were in Shetland for over a month so when we arrived back in Glasgow I felt quite disorientated. It was just everything, the noise, the people. It was weird that after just a month in Shetland I felt slightly assaulted by the city.”
“God, when I was about nine or ten years old, my whole summers were spent playing tennis. I was there from when it opened till when it closed. They had to kick me off the courts, I loved it so much.”
“Fundamentally, I do a job at which I can make a living and I like it. That's the bottom line. I still really enjoy it. I like getting up and going to work. I've spent my whole adult creative life doing this.”