Robert Carlyle to Alan Morrison, the Herald, July 2015, about The Legend of Barney Thomson:

"You're absolutely right in saying that the stuff I knew wasn't really there any more, particularly in the East end,"   he agrees. "The Commonwealth Games was about to kick off, Dalmarnock had been flattened. I realised we could use that to our advantage and try to use places that had a slightly ghostly element to them.

"Shawfield Dog Track....I grew up there with my dad. That's where we went every Thursday and Saturday night for years and years and years. And it's empty now. The wee stand on the far side has trees growing out of it. You've also got the Barrowlands, the Sarry Heid, the Red Road flats. So, yes, they're the Glasgow that I knew....but let's see the Glasgow that I knew in that ghostly light."

About the climactic scene with Emma Thompson:
"Her character is falling apart, the Red Road flats are about to die, Glasgow is dying to a certain extent round about it, so it was important to get those wee dying flickers of flame."