It is very linear storytelling, and I think that's not so much the fashion. I was watching a new drama the other night which was extremely non-linear, where you flash back and flash forward in ways that certainly keeps you on your toes as the audience. There's not much of that courage with the storytelling in our Maigret film.

If you're a serious actor, it's when you know you're going to die tomorrow that you really start to feel it.

I can be reasonably funny and light-hearted when I'm in the company of good friends, but I'm not a jokesmith. I tend to be quite serious.

Marketing is what gets you noticed.

Look, if I'd wanted a lecture on the rights of man, I'd have gone to bed with Martin Luther.

I'm not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.

But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.