William Boyd Quotes

But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.

Mel Gibson would not be a good James Bond.

I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.

I never ever thought that I would be in a Bond film, ever, which is weird because I grew up loving these amazing movies.

I love watching old movies anyway - I grew up with my mom watching old movies and being immersed in the history of old Hollywood.

I like the black and white movies on AMC.

I didn't go to many movies. My mom would make a family outing and bring chicken in the theater. Smell up the whole place. The most impactful movies were 'Godfather II' and 'Scarface'. I loved the human complexity, and those movies are so well shot. Cinematic greatness. I really stopped going in my early twenties.

I think Daniel Craig is brilliant as Bond. I remember at the beginning, they were all saying, 'Oh, he won't work,' and I thought, 'Yeah, you watch.'

I'm a big Turner Classic Movies fanatic - I was really addicted for a while.

I absolutely love genre movies. When I was a kid, I was really impacted by genre films and cult classics.

George Lazenby was ill-equipped. It's not for nothing that they didn't offer him any sequels.

I've always loved 'Bond.' There were two franchises that I would always have dropped everything to do as a director. 'Bond' was one; 'Star Wars' was other.

'Skyfall' was marvellous, the best Bond film ever made.

'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' was a movie that I repeatedly turned down. The movie's producer, Albert 'Cubby' Broccoli, known for his tight-fisted control of the James Bond movie franchise, desperately wanted to re-team Julie Andrews and me after the success we'd enjoyed with 'Mary Poppins.'

One of my goals is to play a villain in a Bond film. People ask me if I want to be a Bond girl, and I say, 'No, I want to be the villain.' I'm waiting for that call!

I love watching old movies, and I read a lot of autobiographies.

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

I like watching old stuff. I like old Al Pacino movies. 'Serpico.' 'Dog Day Afternoon.'

I'd seen all of John Hughes's movies. All the Spielberg stuff. A bunch of '80s horror, like 'Evil Dead.'

The 'Godfather I' and 'II,' those were real straight movies in my life. At the same time, so is 'Five Deadly Venoms,' if we go into kung-fu movies.

I saw 'The Sting' about 35 times and 'Jeremiah Johnson' and 'Billy Jack' about 50 times.

'Deewar' has been remade so many times, 'Trishul' has been remade so many times. But 'Don' - no one has gone into this area as often as they have gone into these other movies, and I think it fits into the modern sensibility of movie viewing quite well.

I grew up watching 'Gigi.' My grandmother had it, and I watched it there.

I love to watch old movies when I get time off.

I saw 'A Night at the Opera,' this Marx Brothers film, when I was, like, six years old. I just became obsessed, you know?