At The Moment, I'm Certainly

Get That Right, Then- If You Get The Quality Right, Then The Marketability Or Whatever; Your Ability To Sell Videos Or Your Ability To Earn Money Or Whatever, Will Follow Naturally. But Try To Be Creatively Lead Rather Than Market Lead. And That's Important To Me.

The Job Is Interesting, And The Task Is Difficult, But The Man [maigret] Is Just A Decent Man Doing A Very Ordinary Job.

In The Modern Media Age We Are Rarely Surprised By What We See. Whether It's On Television Or Film Or In The Theatre, Everything Is So Advertised, So Trailed, That Most Entertainment Is Merely What You Thought It Was Going To Be Like.

We Still Have A Tradition Certainly In English Television; It's Faded A Bit In The Last Five Years, But We Still Have A Tradition Where The Important Thing Is The Quality And The Challenging Nature Of The Programming.

Although The Great Frustration About This [role] Is The Fact That There's One Thing Maigret Never Does, And That's Drive. He's Always Driven, Or He Takes The Train, Or He Gets The Bus. I Was Saying 'well, Why Don't We Ring The Changes For The 21st Century, And Stick Him In The Car?'. [executive Producer And Son Of The Author, John Simenon] Said, 'well, You Can If You Want, But There'll Be Lots Of People Who Won't Like It'. So He's A Non-driver ... But No, Top Gear Was Never A Consideration For Me; And Neither Was I Asked