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

Marketing is what gets you noticed, and that side of it something - this side of it, if you like, doing interviews - is the side of it that I least enjoy, and yet is 50% of the project.

Without wanting to claim that I'm really like James Bond I would certainly prefer to be thought of as closer to James Bond than Mr. Bean most definitely.

It certainly helps, I think, with some actors to understand the process of acting. You see what extraordinary pressure they're under, there's a huge circus dedicated to a particular moment and they're got to deliver and it can help that you, even if empathetically alone, understand what they're doing.

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

I'm not a collector. I don't like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate.

I tend to play rather odd men. People that are slightly odd or eccentric, or have a more particular attitude to life.