[about the movie industry] There`s too many people in seats of power who just haven`t got a clue what they`re doing. They`re bean counters, and it just pisses me off because consequently our kids go to see this crap movie . . . there`s nothing with meanin...
It never felt real to me. I never felt I had complete ownership over Bond. Because you`d have these stupid one-liners - which I loathed - and I always felt phony doing them. I`d look at myself in the suit and tie and think, "What the heck am I doing here?...
There`s nothing like going off and doing a film in Nigeria, Papua New Guinea or Santa Fe, it`s the best and most exhilarating. I mean it sorts the men from the boys, really, where you have to figure out who really wants to do it and who`s good at their jo...
[2005] A few years ago I would have said I could imagine playing James Bond in a more ferocious way. Like a sort of Quentin Tarantino character - but now, at 52, I am definitely too old.