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When you experience bereavement at a youngish age, you suddenly realise that life is unjust and unfair, that bad things will happen, and you have to... →
I don't think they'll ever make a retro Bond.
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... →
Human beings are interested in the human condition.
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.
I have this lock of hair that keeps falling across my forehead. It drives me mad.
I let people off the hook too easily.
I tend to admire dead people more than the living. All too often, human reality diminishes the glowing reputation.
In some ways, you could argue, television is doing far more interesting work than the movies. It's more fulfilling.
In the broad spectrum of the arts, two worlds rarely overlap - the literary world and the world of rock music.
My novels are often about people who are in love or attracted to each other.
The last thing you know about yourself is your effect.
There is a disconnect between the film Bond and the literary Bond which is their contemporaneity. I don't suffer from that.