The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'

I know what I like in other actors: truth. That's the best. It makes you say, 'OK, I'll go with you on this.'

I just think that the collective experience of going to see a film is something you can't recreate.

I'm not averse to earning someone; in fact I'd love to earn some money. But also my choices of movies don't tend to make money but I get to make interesting films. But it doesn't mean I don't want to earn shitloads of cash.

There's a conscious decision to everything I do.

If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies.

I always wanted to be an actor. I had the arrogance to believe I couldn't be anything else.