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And that sort of reinforces to me that fact that he causes so much trouble, and never really pays a price for it, which I think he should.
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And what's interesting about him as a comic character is that the custard pie hardly ever ends up on his face.
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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.
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Blackadder Back and Forth wasn't a very good omen, I didn't think. We'd have to have a much more professional and rigorous - and sort of genuine - approach to it.
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But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
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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.
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I don't much enjoy Back and Forth. I mean, I think it has its own particular qualities, but I think it's inferior to any of the half-hour ones we did.
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I feel as though the camera is almost a kind of voyeur in Mr. Bean's life, and you just watch this bizarre man going about his life in the way that he wants to.
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I had already got a degree in electrical and electronic engineering, which is my background.
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I mean I can do it when I'm very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing.
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I mean, Mr. Bean was conspicuously not a partnership - although, yet again, it's valuable to have straight men or the authority figures that Mr. Bean interacted with in a very funny way, because he's sort of such a natural anarchist.
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I think I am a creative person, but I'm slightly more kind of visionary... I prefer to guide writers, than to claim to be one of them.
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I think the character does tend to suit an episodic thing, because what's fun about him is that he doesn't care about anyone else, and it's very difficult for a main character - a lead character - in a movie to not care about anybody else.
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I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
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I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.
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I'm not really a writer, so my main problem always is finding the writing talent to write something of the caliber that you would like to do.
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In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don't really need to explain very much at all - you just say he's a spy and he's a little bit theatrical and overblown and smug and he's not very good at his job.
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It's the difficulty we had with Mr. Bean, actually, when it went from TV to film. You certainly discover that you need to explain more about a character.
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Marketing is what gets you noticed, and that side of it something - this side of it, if you like, doing interviews - is the side of it that I least enjoy, and yet is 50% of the project.
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Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this jewel, this sort of two headed tradition of doing comedy, of doing sketches, and that kind of thing.
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No, no, I was only funny on stage, really. I, I, think I was funny as a person toward my classmates when I was very young. You know, when I was a child, up to about the age of 12.
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Not so much in Canada, but certainly in the US, as I'm sure you know, money is all, and if they can get another 26 programs of the same thing even though it advances the culture or those actor's careers not at all it doesn't matter.
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Of course, some would say if you have a performing inclination, then you should become a lawyer. That's a platform we use, or a priest. You know, anywhere you lecture and pontificate to people.
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There comes- I suppose we have a bit more respect for creativity, and the importance of creativity to the individual.
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We still have a tradition certainly in English television; it's faded a bit in the last five years, but we still have a tradition where the important thing is the quality and the challenging nature of the programming.
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What I like is, I like variety. I like to move on, but I don't - in any sense - ignore the old.
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When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing on chat shows in character as Mr. Bean.
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You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
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