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There's something very strange about Sherlock Holmes, especially if you're an English schoolboy. When you read the stories, they stay with you forever.

If people ask, 'Are you Sherlock Holmes?', it's horribly naff, but I say, 'I'm not, I just look a bit like him' - which is how I feel. There are bad attributes of his that I really don't share!

I always had a soft spot for Sherlock Holmes and used to imagine helping him out.

'Sherlock' fans are, by and large, an intelligent breed, so they've gone through my back catalogue and got what I've done, why and how I've done it. There is some obsessive behaviour, but I worry for them rather than me.

'Sherlock' is one of the biggest things I will do, ever - we could never have predicted that level of insanity around the series.

When I think of Sherlock Holmes, I think of a guy who can wander into the confusion of life and sort of pluck out answers at will.

The thing is, horror is a big part of 'Sherlock Holmes.' Doyle also wrote a lot of great horror stories, so there's a lot more horror in 'Holmes' that people possibly think of. There's a lot of curses and mysticism and real scares.

Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.

The world of 'Sherlock Holmes' and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation.

Although there's an inherent light-heartedness to 'Sherlock,' I slightly err towards not doing the comedy.