David Suchet

David Suchet: (About photography) Let the camera be an extension of your eye. How you see is how you photograph.

(about wearing the Poirot fat suit)

David Suchet: I'm a 34" waist, and Poirot is about a 43", and he must be at least sixteen or seventeen stones, and no way am I going to do a Robert de Niro, and put that weight on my own frame. I once actually did do something like that, in a film called Sunday, and I played a New Yorker who was supposed to weight 27 stones. I just ate and ate and ate - everything that I shouldn't have done. I find it very easy to pile it on - but God, it was the best part of a year in getting it all off again, and it was agony. Never again!

(about perfecting the Poirot walk)

David Suchet: When I did the film testing, I had been cast and we did some film tests just to see how it all looked -- the make-up and the costume and things before we actually went into proper filming. The producer, Brian Eastman, and I sat down to have a look at what we'd shot, and we were sort of pleased that the character was there, and he said, "Well, you know, it's nearly there, but there's something missing. There's something missing." He said, "You know, the funny thing is, David I don't know what it is. It's something to do with the movement. And I turned around and said, "Could it be the way I'm walking because maybe I'm walking too much like me and it's not reflecting the character." So we watched a bit again and he said, "You know, I think you're right."