I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended periods of time.

I would never be a television presenter. It's not something I could ever do.

I'm more critical of the films I make than anyone else.

This is sort of inflection-free acting [playing Maigret], and I really wasn't sure if I could do it - you make your mind up on whether I've succeeded or not. But yes, I found it difficult when we were shooting; it was a couple of weeks before I settled into not worrying - to finding a way of delivering those lines - so my worries of many months before I think had been justified. I found it a difficult way of being.

My personal problem is that I take the business of film-making so seriously that I find it very difficult to relax.

And, we put a lot more value, or at least I personally put a lot more value, on the creative values and creative challenges of something than the commercial necessities.

I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.