There is a disconnect between the film Bond and the literary Bond which is their contemporaneity. I don't suffer from that.

Sometimes limbo is a tolerable place to be stuck.

She's half mad and three parts drunk.

There is a disconnect between the film Bond and the literary Bond which is their contemporaneity. I don't suffer from that.

I let people off the hook too easily.

Writing a film - more precisely, adapting a book into a film - is basically a relentless series of compromises. The skill, the "art," is to make those compromises both artistically valid and essentially your own. . . . It has been said before but is worth reiterating: writing a novel is like swimming in the sea; writing a film is like swimming in the bath.

In the broad spectrum of the arts, two worlds rarely overlap - the literary world and the world of rock music.