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

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

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

You have to be careful of the advice you take.

When I started to allow the characters to go where they wanted to go, I just had to follow.

We crash into each other just so we can feel something.

All the studios are owned by multinational corporations, which are not usually bastions of the left. So all the actors, writers, and directors - or at least a great majority of them - live in fear because we're all insecure, we all want that next job, we all want to be loved, and we don't want to piss off some studio chief who won't hire us for the next movie.