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

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.

Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.

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

I think one or two of the later Holmes stories are among the best.

I love Sherlock Holmes, but I love any of these old stories where the writer was paid by the word, so the adventures just continue forever. They are almost like they were meant to be read out loud.

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

When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle conceived Sherlock Holmes, why didn't he give the famous consulting detective a few more quirks: a wooden leg, say, and an Oedipus complex? Well, Holmes didn't need many physical tics or personality disorders; the very concept of a consulting detective was still fresh and original in 1887.

I read two mysteries a day when I was a kid. All of Agatha Christie, all of 'Sherlock Holmes.' I've seen every single British detective show ever made.