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.

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

I don't know how we had about eighteen international stars in it, all playing James Bond.

And then she finally said yes. And we have been married, I want you to know, for 51 years.

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

Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.

No, we didn't shoot... in the ones that I did there were hardly any sex... there were suggestions of sex scenes but we never actually shot a sex scene as such.