Certainly in the second film [Maigret's Dead Man], which is quite a more unpleasant and darker story, it's quite different in tone and feel..

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….

The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil's own satanic herd!.

I find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there's a gas bill tied to it..

Paris in the mid-'50s was a very interesting place. It was only ten years after the Third Reich had left, and the city was awash with guns, and crime….

The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance... has helped to determine your path through life..

What is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational or abusive of….

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. Th….

I have always believed that there should be no subject about which one cannot make jokes, religion included. Clearly, one is always constricted by co….

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 Pa….

I have to say that I've always believed perfectionism is more of a disease than a quality. I do try to go with the flow but I can't let go..

But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism..

It's not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature..

I'm not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else..

I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination..

Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine..

You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest..

People think because I can make them laugh on the stage, I'll be able to make them laugh in person. That isn't the case at all. I am essentially a ra….

The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alte….

I have always worried about things more than I should..

Marketing is what gets you noticed..