I Have Always Worried About

The Maigret Stories Are All Very Different In Terms Of The Content And The Way That The Stories Are Told. They're Not What I Would Call Formulaic.

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.

Confronting A Stadium Audience, You Can't See The Whites Of Their Eyes. It's Just An Amorphous Mass Of Noise And, Of Course, You Can't See The Alleged Billions Watching At Home Either, So The Degree To Which You Are Intimidated Is Quite Low.

If You're A Serious Actor, It's When You Know You're Going To Die Tomorrow That You Really Start To Feel It.

I Like To Relish Words And Sentences, And Phraseology, And There's Not Much Facility For That [playing Maigret].