If it hadn't been for Q Branch, you'd have been dead long ago! ~ • (1962) • (1963) • (1964) • (1965) Casino royale 1967* (1967) • (1969) • (1971) • (1973) • (1974) • (1977) • (1979) • (1981) • (1983) • (1983) [Not an EON Productions film] • (1985) • (1987) • (1989) • (1995) • (1997) • (1999) • (2002) • (2006) • (2008) • (2012) • (2015) See also [ ] •, author of the original James Bond novels and stories •, a video game •, a video game •, a video game •, a video game About James Bond (film series) [ ]. I’ve never seen him steal anyone’s wife, anyone else’s woman, or betray his own; he doesn’t have one. He likes women all right, but he never rapes them; it’s they who worm their way into his bed. He kills people, he has to; if he doesn’t, they’ll kill him. He abides by no laws, but nor is he protected by the laws that protect others; society does nothing to defend him, he isn’t known to society.
He’s rather ignorant, O.K., but he doesn’t exactly have the time for reading Joyce. His struggle for survival obliges him to be practical, functional, to reduce everything to the verbs sniff, look, listen, taste, think. His safety depends on this and not on Joyce.
~ • I felt I was caught in a time warp between Roger and Sean. It was a very hard one to grasp the meaning of, for me. The violence was never real, the brute force of the man was never palpable. It was quite tame, and the characterisation didn’t have a follow-through of reality, it was surface. •, Hannah Furness, The Telegraph, (12 Apr 2014). • The only real difficulty I found in playing Bond was that I had to start from scratch. Nobody knew anything about him, after all.