Villains are very, very boring to do. They're so much easier than heroes.

Holmes has become the dark side of the moon for me. He is moody and solitary and underneath I am really sociable and gregarious. It has all got too dangerous.

I've done 33 Sherlock Holmes stories and bits of them are all right. But the definitive Sherlock Holmes is really in everyone's head. No actor can fit into that category because every reader has his own ideal.

I think the greatest star in American at the moment is Kevin Costner.

Villains are very, very boring to do. They're so much easier than heroes.

They are a great essay in male friendship, which has gone now. Men's friendship has been debased. One of the lovely things about Holmes and Watson is that they do have this great platonic relationship.

I'm not looking and I don't go hunting. I'm the type who's got to be found.