“[Maigret Sets a Trap] was always going to be the first film, and it seemed to be quite a nice story. But of course it meant that here I was playing this new character for the first time, in a place where he had been a relative failure, as all these people had been murdered and the pressure was on. Rather than starting optimistically with his pipe in front of the fireplace, he was in quite a difficult place.”
![“[Maigret Sets a Trap] was always going to be the first film, and it seemed to be quite a nice story. But of course it meant that here I was playing this new character for the first time, in a place where he had been a relative failure, as all these people had been murdered and the pressure was on…” quote by Rowan Atkinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/cc2/rowan-atkinson-3883_character_maigret-sets-a-trap-was-always-going-to_1839131.jpg)
![“The first couple of weeks of filming were quite tricky for me to find my feet with the character [Maigret], which wasn't helped by the story that we were telling.” quote by Rowan Atkinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/448/rowan-atkinson-3883_character_the-first-couple-of-weeks-of-filming-wer_1449889.jpg)
![“[Maigret] is terribly self-contained, not that I would ever wish him to be any more comic, particularly, but in the second film we've made you see he's a little more ironic from time to time. But as I say, that's just work in progress.” quote by Rowan Atkinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7b2/rowan-atkinson-3883_comic_maigret-is-terribly-self-contained-not-t_2801004.jpg)
![“He [Taika Watiti] worked on this screenplay for a couple of years and just getting it right and the result is there. He's made really close to a perfect film [Hunt for the Wilderpeople]... Perfect as you can be.” quote by Rhys Darby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/833/rhys-darby-12111_couple_he-taika-watiti-worked-on-this-screenpla_2074685.jpg)
