Michael Korda Quotes

For a brief moment, Ian Fleming made being an Englishman seem sexy, even to the French. He should have been awarded a knighthood, even possibly the Garter.

Before Jason Bourne, before Jack Ryan, there was Bond, James Bond, the original two-dimensional, world-saving secret agent.

Ian Fleming was my cousin, you know. He was in naval intelligence.

And he said that he wrote the Bond character based on the character of David Niven. That's how he saw Bond.

Charles Kiss is a legendary James Bond-style British spy. And McGrath is the young idealist who is given the task of following in his footsteps. It's a mission that forces McGrath to question everything he thought he believed in.

I grew up on all of the great spy movies and TV series of the Sixties - not just Bond, but Derek Flint and the Avengers and Modesty Blaise and the Man from UNCLE and on and on. Every time I sit down to work on Cinderella, I'm writing a love letter to all of those characters.

I had still never read one of the Bond books when the movie Dr. No came out.

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?

I can bore for England on the subject of James Bond. But I knew I couldn't do it frivolously; I had to take it very seriously, however much fun I was having. And I had to make myself, you know, absolutely steeped in Bond and in Fleming and that world.

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

Young people looking for adventure fiction now generally turn to fantasy, but for those of a certain age, the spy thriller has long been the escape reading of choice.

I've always loved the Bond films.

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

I love watching the Bond movies obviously and I grew up reading the books as a kid. I've always loved them because of that.

Ask Bond-watchers of a certain age about the six actors who have slipped into Bond's Savile Row suits in the Broccoli franchise, and they might say it's really Connery and five other guys - since he, being first and being Sean, stamped the role with his sulfurous masculinity.

The whole Bond thing has gotten so dour with the direction they've been going in, it feels like they need to move back to Pierce Brosnan-style fun Bond again. If they did that, Dan Stevens would be the perfect choice.

'Codename Baboushka' is an action-packed modern pulp spy thriller, in the sort of British tradition of 'Modesty Blaise', New Avengers and of course James Bond. It's a book about Contessa Annika Malikova, the last of a noble Russian line and an enigmatic, mysterious figure in New York high society.

I've got so much respect for 'Bond.' It's such an iconic cultural behemoth. I love the whole story - Ian Fleming's stories are amazing.

I love 'Bond' movies, I love spy movies.

I'd be that James Bond character from the Beautyrest commercial that we did. Maybe some day.

Her Majesty's Secret Service wouldn't have me on the payroll.

People are already describing it [Skyfall] as the best Bond flick ever, and I really think it will be.

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

My lab is like a fantasy world - it is more like a 'James Bond' movie!

I love Le Carre's writing.