I Would Never Wish To

The Right To Ridicule Is Far More Important To Society Than Any Right Not To Be Ridiculed Because One In My View Represents Openness - And The Other Represents Oppression.

I Suddenly Think The Job Of Acting Is A Difficult One. It's Not As Flip, Irrelevant And Shallow A Calling As I Thought It Was In The Eighties.

I'm Sure That A French Production Of This [maigret Series] Would Be Different. For Better Or Worse, Who's To Say, But Probably Not Very Good For 8 O'clock On Itv.

To Criticize A Person For Their Race Is Manifestly Irrational And Ridiculous, But To Criticize Their Religion, That Is A Right. That Is A Freedom. The Freedom To Criticize Ideas, Any Ideas - Even If They Are Sincerely Held Beliefs - Is One Of The Fundamental Freedoms Of Society. A Law Which Attempts To Say You Can Criticize And Ridicule Ideas As Long As They Are Not Religious Ideas Is A Very Peculiar Law Indeed.

It Certainly Helps, I Think, With Some Actors To Understand The Process Of Acting. You See What Extraordinary Pressure They're Under, There's A Huge Circus Dedicated To A Particular Moment And They're Got To Deliver And It Can Help That You, Even If Empathetically Alone, Understand What They're Doing.