I Have Always Worried About Things More

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

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.

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.

The Decision To Do It [play Maigret] Was Related To The Fact That The Character Is A Very Ordinary Man, And Generally Speaking I Haven't Played Very Many Ordinary Men.

[maigret] Is Terribly Self-contained, Not That I Would Ever Wish Him To Be Any More Comic, Particularly, But In The Second Film We've Made You See He's A Little More Ironic From Time To Time. But As I Say, That's Just Work In Progress.