When I Was Doing Bean

The Good Thing About Those Original Credit Card Commercials Was That They Were Very "filmic", They Were Like Little Movies, So It Wasn't A Big Step To Think Well Maybe We Could Make A Big Movie Using This Character, Which We Eventually Did.

Marketing Is What Gets You Noticed.

I Think In Many Ways Johnny English Is A More Believable Character.

I Think I Have An Inner Confidence That My Tastes Are Pretty Simple, That What I Find Funny Finds A Wide Audience. I'm Not Particularly Intellectual Or Clever Or Minority-focused In My Creative Instincts. And I'm Certainly Not Aware Of Suppressing More Sophisticated Ambitions.

It Was The Challenge Of That That I Found Daunting, But Also Engaging And Interesting [to Play Maigret].