The Decision To Do It [play Maigret]

The Older You Get, The More You Realise How Happenstance... Has Helped To Determine Your Path Through Life.

I Like To Juggle With One Ball At A Time. Then I Put The Ball Down And Do Nothing For Extended Periods Of Time.

I Like To Relish Words And Sentences, And Phraseology, And There's Not Much Facility For That [playing Maigret].

I'm Sure That A French Production Of This [maigret Series] Would Be Different. For Better Or Worse, Who's To Say, But Probably Not Very Good For 8 O'clock On Itv.

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, And Racketeering, And All Sorts Of Hangovers From A Very Difficult Time In French History. So It's An Interesting Time To Be A Policeman.