If not exactly raging against the dying of the light, I was at least a little cross with it.

It was all quite ghastly and I was very fond of it.

My dad was quite a forbidding figure. I realise now that that was mainly because he worked so hard. He wasn't unkind, but he was a presence.

The thing is, horror is a big part of 'Sherlock Holmes.' Doyle also wrote a lot of great horror stories, so there's a lot more horror in 'Holmes' that people possibly think of. There's a lot of curses and mysticism and real scares.

At school I briefly wanted to be a palaeontologist, but I was no good at chemistry and physics.

Benedict is bumbly, sweet, affable; the nicest man you've met.

Even when I was a child, I always wanted to be older. I realised just in time that it's a mistake and to enjoy my youth while I had it.