King Hu Quotes

I could get into bed with James Bond, then take my false leg off and it would really be a gun.

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?

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

A Bond movie falls into a specific genre, and you have to provide certain elements. You must respect the fact it's essentially about girls, guns, gadgets, and big action.

Sometimes James Bond movies drive me crazy. They're fun to watch, but they don't have anything to do at all with what intelligence officers really do.

Yeah, I'd make a decent Bond. But it'd be very, very different if I did it.

Maybe I'll get into a Bond film... I always thought I'd be a Bond Girl when I was young.

I think I'd make a good James Bond... I'm joking.

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!

I can be the best James Bond there is.

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

I always liked spy stories.

I'd like to do an action film like Angelina Jolie's 'Salt.'

The world of spying is my genre. My struggle is to demystify, to de-romanticise the spook world, but at the same time harness it as a good story.

The more real I got on 'The Bourne Identity,' the more interesting it got. So 'Fair Game' was the chance to go a few more steps in that direction. In fact, I discovered this whole other world that I had ignored in the 'Bourne' franchise, which is the domestic life of a spy, and how you make the two halves of your life coexist.

'Homeland' is a thriller with a lot of cloak and dagger spy stuff, which is one of the things that makes it so much fun.

When you really study espionage movies, or spy movies, the beginnings are really set up to have, like, an amazing bit of action, but at the moment you're watching it, you have no idea why or what it's about.

I started my career wanting to make a 'James Bond' movie, and I couldn't get hired! I made 'The Bourne Identity,' and ultimately the impact of that film was that it changed the 'James Bond' franchise.

I've always loved the Bond films.

Daniel Craig is brilliant as Bond: there is no question about that. But it's a different Bond. It's the cross pollination of 'The Bourne Identity' and 'James Bond;' that kind of style of filmmaking.

I mostly gave away what I had from the James Bond movie.

I want to play James Bond - are you kidding me? I'm putting my name in the ring!

What kid doesn't want to pretend they're James Bond?

Bond was how Fleming saw himself; the sardonic, cruel mouth, the hard, tight skinned face.