I Have Always Worried About Things More

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

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.

What Directors Of Television Drama Constantly Tell You Is 'don't Act It. Don't Try. Don't Emphasise That Word'. Whereas With Someone Like Blackadder, Even Though He's A Relatively Low Key Character In A Way, He Did Relish The Lines That He Had And The Words That He Was Given, With A Lot Of Inflection.

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 Trailed, That Most Entertainment Is Merely What You Thought It Was Going To Be Like.

If You're A Serious Actor, It's When You Know You're Going To Die Tomorrow That You Really Start To Feel It.