There's a new television generation coming in every five or 10 years, and the classic stories stand up to being redone.

I think the part I enjoy most is reading the scripts and screening films because I'm a bookworm and a movie buff.

I love mysteries on television – the more psychologically complex the better.

To be a working actor in England is a life. I think it's harder in this country. Either you are a superstar or a starving actor.

People love solving puzzles, and you always love it when somebody smarter than you is solving puzzles.

There's always a crisis somewhere, and you get the satisfaction of solving the problem. And then, there's always the mystery of whether a program will work or not, and waiting for the reviews or seeing what the audience figures are.

There's a new television generation coming in every five or 10 years, and the classic stories stand up to being redone.