[James Bond's qualities of] self-containment, his powers of decision, his ability to carry on through till the end and to survive ... I like to think I acquired them before Bond.

You write your first draft with your heart and you re-write with your head. The first key to writing is to write, not to think.

I find if I just sit down and think, a solution presents itself.

I suppose I'll be able to get a drink there.

Don't wait for it to happen, don't even want it to happen - just watch what does happen.

A martini. Shaken, not stirred.

I'm fed up with the idiots... the ever-widening gap between people who know how to make movies and the people who green-light the movies.