There's a lot of instant spotlight and pressure when it comes to a Bond song.

The paparazzi terrify and torment people and endanger people and it's really unpleasant.

Never give up, have the passion. Don't be afraid.

One would think that it would be very easy, with an iconic character like James Bond, to keep making the films, but it hasn't been. But, it sure has been entertaining and rewarding.

I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.

When men change, maybe Bond will change.

People go to extraordinary lengths to get films made.

So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.

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

Bad movies are when people go oh, I wasted $10 bucks and 2 hours and I don't even want to go back again.

The sight of a palm tree silhouetted against the sky made even his life feel like a movie

The best teaching is often both an intellectual creation and a performing art.

If I had a box full of all the evils of the world, I'd open it just a little way and push you inside. Then I'd close it again for always.

Contentment is worth more than riches.

The Iraqi elections were an important first step.

I tell myself lies and soon I believe them.

There were so many fewer questions when stars were still just the holes to heaven.

Honour is Virtue's allowed ascent: honour that clasps All perfect justice in her arms; that craves No more respect than that she gives; that does Nothing but what she'll suffer.

Material success is always tempered by the recollection that there was some kind of happiness that was supposed to come with it.

Angels dance only with You, Beloved and only before You do I bow in adoration. You may accept me or not but I will be at your feet forever.