Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.

I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended periods of time.

Of course, some would say if you have a performing inclination, then you should become a lawyer. That's a platform we use, or a priest. You know, anywhere you lecture and pontificate to people.

I love both [Johnny English and James Bond] actually. The action sequences are really exciting because you're getting to work with some brilliant crew and do some great stuff but you always get some magic when you're working with actors.

I like to relish words and sentences, and phraseology, and there's not much facility for that [playing Maigret].

The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult.

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