When I Was Doing Bean

It's Not Easy To Take A Sit-com And Turn It Into A Feature.

I Can Be Reasonably Funny And Light-hearted When I'm In The Company Of Good Friends, But I'm Not A Jokesmith. I Tend To Be Quite Serious.

Of Course, Some Would Say If You Have A Performing Inclination, Then You Should Become A Lawyer. That's A Platform We Use, Or A Priest. You Know, Anywhere You Lecture And Pontificate To People.

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.

The Problem With Maigret Is He Hasn't Got A Limp, And He Hasn't Got A Lisp, And He Hasn't Got A French Accent, Or A Particular Love Of Opera... Or All Those Other Things That People Tend To Attach To Many Fictional Detectives. He's Just An Ordinary Guy Doing An Extraordinary Job, In A Very Interesting Time.