I'm Not A Naturally Funny

The Right To Ridicule Is Far More Important To Society Than Any Right Not To Be Ridiculed Because One In My View Represents Openness - And The Other Represents Oppression.

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

The Arts Community Still Has A Long Lasting Cynicism Of The Importance, Or The Artistic Value, Of Comedy. Comedy Is Just Farting About For Money.

I've Read About Eight Or Ten Of The Original Novels, And One Of Them Is Where Maigret's In Bed For The Entire Story! His Wife Is Running Around And Solving The Case!

[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.