It's not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.

It was the challenge of that that I found daunting, but also engaging and interesting [to play Maigret].

Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression.

A law which attempts to say you can criticise and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed.

In the modern media age we are rarely surprised by what we see. Whether it's on television or film or in the theatre, everything is so advertised, so trailed, that most entertainment is merely what you thought it was going to be like.

[Georges] Simenon could be very brave like that. You never quite know what you're going to get or how the story's going to be told.

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