I enjoy my job as long as I can create a character, otherwise it's boring.

I can't imagine what it would be like being James Bond 24 hours. That must be exhausting.

All of the good movies are based on how that story was told. And you cannot do it with a bad script, that's for sure, no matter who.

Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time.

[That night] I was sitting by Jack Nicholson with my long list of thanks, and I said, `I'm so nervous. I don't know what to say if I go up there.' He said, `Don't get emotional, drop the names, and dedicate it to your mother.'

I do a job and am lucky enough to do a job that I love, but it is a hard one. I'm not saying it is as hard as working in a coal mine, but it is still difficult in a different way. Sometimes you have to go through very strong emotional journeys and then come back to yourself. And that can be difficult to control.

Bond is the longest-running franchise ever and there's a reason for that: they are action movies but they are also touched by current events without being political or too serious.