When I Was Doing Bean

It Is Very Linear Storytelling, And I Think That's Not So Much The Fashion. I Was Watching A New Drama The Other Night Which Was Extremely Non-linear, Where You Flash Back And Flash Forward In Ways That Certainly Keeps You On Your Toes As The Audience. There's Not Much Of That Courage With The Storytelling In Our Maigret Film.

I've No Desire To Hang Around With A Bunch Of Upper-class Delinquents, Do Twenty Minutes' Work And Then Spend The Rest Of The Day Loafing About In Paris Drinking Gallons Of Champagne And Having Dozens Of Moist, Pink, Highly Experienced French Peasant Girls Galloping Up And Down My - Hang On.

The Older You Get, The More You Realise How Happenstance... Has Helped To Determine Your Path Through Life.

Having Spent A Substantial Part Of My Career Parodying Religious Figures From My Own Christian Background, I Am Aghast At The Notion That It Could, In Effect, Be Made Illegal To Imply Ridicule Of A Religion Or To Lampoon Religious Figures.

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.