The moment you have kids, you are prey to judgment, but you also become a judge. You find yourself going, "Can you believe what she did with such-and-such?" at school.

Every Bond is different and every generation needs a different Bond and it's been able to move with the times.

I feel like the American years were my apprenticeship for doing a Bond movie.

There have been screenwriters who I'm sure would gladly kill me, because I've been very fast and loose with their work, because I felt like it wasn't up to my high standards. I would push and pull it on set, and make changes all the time. But then when you're working with an original screenplay, my theater instincts kick in, and I suddenly become very keeper-of-the-words.

I like throwing snowballs at small children.

I want to inspire, and be inspired.

You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't.