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.

The job is interesting, and the task is difficult, but the man [Maigret] is just a decent man doing a very ordinary job.

[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.

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

I don't really have plans like that [move towards more dramatic acting].

Johnny English is someone who really means well it's just that he's not as good as he thinks he is, and I think that maybe that's the British male in a nutshell.

And, we put a lot more value, or at least I personally put a lot more value, on the creative values and creative challenges of something than the commercial necessities.