You're About As Useful As A One-legged

And, We Put A Lot More Value, Or At Least I Personally Put A Lot More Value, On The Creative Values And Creative Challenges Of Something Than The Commercial Necessities.

Get That Right, Then- If You Get The Quality Right, Then The Marketability Or Whatever; Your Ability To Sell Videos Or Your Ability To Earn Money Or Whatever, Will Follow Naturally. But Try To Be Creatively Lead Rather Than Market Lead. And That's Important To Me.

I Have Always Worried About Things More Than I Should.

The Problem With Maigret Is He Hasn't Got A Limp, And He Hasn't Got A Lisp, And He Hasn't Got A French Accent, Or A Particular Love Of Opera... Or All Those Other Things That People Tend To Attach To Many Fictional Detectives. He's Just An Ordinary Guy Doing An Extraordinary Job, In A Very Interesting Time.

[georges] Simenon Could Be Very Brave Like That. You Never Quite Know What You're Going To Get Or How The Story's Going To Be Told.