I have always thought if you are going to make a film, it's much better to have an original script that will play to film's strengths.

There is a disconnect between the film Bond and the literary Bond which is their contemporaneity. I don't suffer from that.

I can bore for England on the subject of James Bond. But I knew I couldn't do it frivolously; I had to take it very seriously, however much fun I was having. And I had to make myself, you know, absolutely steeped in Bond and in Fleming and that world.

I have this lock of hair that keeps falling across my forehead. It drives me mad.