And he said that he wrote the Bond character based on the character of David Niven. That's how he saw Bond.

We worked solidly for a long time together. George Marriott Edgar and myself.

And he said that he wrote the Bond character based on the character of David Niven. That's how he saw Bond.

I wrote Murder at the Windmill. And it was accepted and we made it and it was the first film I made with Danny Angel, well the only film I actually made... I made a lot of it at the Windmill itself.

I had a terrible job letting me do anything that wasn't comedy.

Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the early days of testing nuclear bombs, that Russia and America happened to test a nuclear bomb at the same moment at different ends of the earth.

Now, I'll tell you something that might interest you. Casino Royale was the first Bond book that Ian Fleming ever wrote. And he couldn't get anybody to touch it, to publish it - he couldn't do anything about it at all. Nobody wanted to know.