When I Was Offered The Part In

Merlin Is Really At The Forefront, In That Regard. We Get A Glimpse Into The Dark, Machiavellian Corridors Of Power. I Like The Fact That, Although He Has Powers, His Powers Are Almost In His Political Guile As Much As What He Relies On, In Darker Forces.

I Love Life. I'm Fascinated By Human Behavior Because That Feeds Back Into My Work.

I Think Religion Might Throw Up A Kind Of Resistance, But I Think If One Talks About Conditioning We Can All Kind Of Understand That.

I Think Everything I Do Is My Early Work. I Can't Wait To Get On To The Later Stuff.

I Also Wanted To Have Fun With It. I Wanted To Have The Scope, Which I Felt Merlin Has, In His Machiavellian Bi-polar Way. He's Not To Be Trusted, Yet He Is Fighting For This Great Power And Is Really A Master, To Some Degree, In Orchestrating Camelot And King Arthur. He's A Strange, Dark Devious Character, And I Just Wanted To Have Fun, And Get Away From The Cloak And Long Beard And Pointy Hat.