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When You Play A Serious Role, As Far As I'm Concerned, I Feel I'm Using Exactly The Same Skills, Whatever They Are, To Play The Role As You Do With Something More Obviously Comic. It's Slightly Different Muscles, But The Same Skill Set.

When I Was Doing Bean More Than I’ve Done Him In The Last Few Years, I Did Strange Things - Like Appearing On Chat Shows In Character As Mr. Bean.

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.

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.

My Personal Problem Is That I Take The Business Of Film-making So Seriously That I Find It Very Difficult To Relax.