I like Pierce Brosnan a lot. But he's playing James Bond - he isn't him. All the poses and stuff, it looks a bit bland. And the gadgets and set-pieces... it looks like the stories are now built around the gadgets, and not vice-versa.

Roger is much closer to David Niven, Cary Grant - gentleman type of actors. So we built the script around that, more lightly. It would have been ridiculous to ask Roger to mimic Sean's style. He had to develop his own.

For years, I've been wondering what could happen to nuclear submarines when they dive and disappear from the surface of the earth for months, without a trace. No one really knows where they are.

Diamonds Are Forever was a really relaxed experience. I remember towards the end of the shooting, we were on that big thing in the sea, the oil rig, and I had to do a few last scenes before wrapping up. I told Sean, "You know, if I got them by the end of the morning, we could go golfing this afternoon." The scenes were in the can in time, so we took a helicopter directly to the Golf course!

I couldn't really understand the basic plot of The World Is Not Enough. What does Bond have to do with that? And to have M in Azerbaijan? For what purpose would M travel there?.And what was exactly the goal of the Villain in that one? So complicated.

My guess is that if they now choose to change of director for every other film, it's just because you can't really change the formula, you can merely try to film it your way.