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

We all possess, like it or not, the people we know, and are possessed by them in turn.

I let people off the hook too easily.

When it's mutual, a man and a woman know, instinctively, wordlessly. They may do nothing about it, but the knowledge of that shared desire is out there in the world - as obvious as neon, saying: I want you, I want you, I want you.

With film, you have very limited tools to convey subjectivity - voiceover, the camera's point of view, good acting - but even the very best actor in the world is crude by comparison with what you can do in a written paragraph.

I don't think they'll ever make a retro Bond.

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