I Like To Juggle With One Ball

Certainly In The Second Film [maigret's Dead Man], Which Is Quite A More Unpleasant And Darker Story, It's Quite Different In Tone And Feel.

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.

It's Not Easy To Take A Sit-com And Turn It Into A Feature.

It's The Difficulty We Had With Mr. Bean, Actually, When It Went From Tv To Film. You Certainly Discover That You Need To Explain More About A Character.

Funny Things Tend Not To Happen To Me. I Am Not A Natural Comic. I Need To Think About Things A Lot Before I Can Be Even Remotely Amusing.