Terence Young Quotes

I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.

Before Jason Bourne, before Jack Ryan, there was Bond, James Bond, the original two-dimensional, world-saving secret agent.

Ask Bond-watchers of a certain age about the six actors who have slipped into Bond's Savile Row suits in the Broccoli franchise, and they might say it's really Connery and five other guys - since he, being first and being Sean, stamped the role with his sulfurous masculinity.

Charles Kiss is a legendary James Bond-style British spy. And McGrath is the young idealist who is given the task of following in his footsteps. It's a mission that forces McGrath to question everything he thought he believed in.

I really, really love Daniel Craig as Bond.

Bond in 'Goldeneye' is pretty much a set character. To be honest, he's another version of Connery, and Connery was terrific. How many submarines can you blow up? How many control rooms are evaporating?

I'm a huge fan of the 'James Bond' genre.

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

I've always loved the Bond films.

I love watching the Bond movies obviously and I grew up reading the books as a kid. I've always loved them because of that.

For a brief moment, Ian Fleming made being an Englishman seem sexy, even to the French. He should have been awarded a knighthood, even possibly the Garter.

I always thought of myself as James Bond.

I will forever be a Bond. It's a small group of men who've made this role. Someone said, More men have walked on the moon than have played James Bond.'

That's it. I've said all I've got to say on the world of James Bond.

I grew up with Bond.

There's one major difference between James Bond and me. He is able to sort out problems!

What I find interesting about Captain Action is that he is more an adventurer and spy than he is a soldier.

James Bond is one of those heroes that all guys feel they could actually be like.

I think every boy would quite like to play James Bond!

Mel Gibson would not be a good James Bond.

We're trying to reinvent Bond. He's 28 - no Q, no gadgets.

I can bore for England on the subject of James Bond. But I knew I couldn't do it frivolously; I had to take it very seriously, however much fun I was having. And I had to make myself, you know, absolutely steeped in Bond and in Fleming and that world.

I can be the best James Bond there is.

I'm not handsome enough to be James Bond. Maybe a villain, though.

The creation of George Smiley, the retired spy recalled to hunt for just such a high-ranking mole in 'Tinker, Tailor,' was extremely personal. I borrowed elements of people I admired and invested them in this mythical character. I'm such a fluent, specious person now, but I was an extremely awkward fellow in those days.