We're trying to reinvent Bond. He's 28 - no Q, no gadgets.

Usually the characters are where I start. Then I continually ask myself, 'What's the worst thing that could happen to this character?'

There are very few guys like me. I make a lot of money. I didn't always.

We never did just one take. Multiple takes. Many. I did a bunch. Sometimes I do one take. Sometimes I did 20.

I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me.

If you change the right mind, then that person can perhaps change the world.

I was fired from my own television show, CBS's Family Law. It was the second time this had happened in my career, the first being when I was fired from The Facts of Life. I had been grateful to work in TV for so long but had always been chasing a career as a feature writer-director and had completely failed.