Paris in the mid-'50s was a very interesting place. It was only ten years after the Third Reich had left, and the city was awash with guns, and crime, and racketeering, and all sorts of hangovers from a very difficult time in French history. So it's an interesting time to be a policeman.
Rowan AtkinsonThe Scarlet Pimpernel is the most over-rated human being since Judas Iscariot won the A.D.31 'Best Disciple' competition.
Rowan AtkinsonMy personal problem is that I take the business of film-making so seriously that I find it very difficult to relax.
Rowan AtkinsonNope, I don't enjoy work generally. Not because I'm lazy; it's just all so stressful and worrying.
Rowan Atkinson