Barbara Broccoli Quotes

Germans aren't action fans. The only kind of action that really works is 'Bond.'

Like you don't watch 'Octopussy' or any Bond film for the story. You see it for the smart lines, the glamour, the overall package.

On one level, I would prefer never to hear the words 'James Bond' again, but on another level, it is part of my blood and my life. And it's the only movie in the world that offers a British actor the chance of international recognition.

I've always loved the Bond pictures. I have watched every single one. Movies don't get bigger or better than Bond, so I knew this was my opportunity to do a massive action picture with outrageous stunts.

In all my 'Bond' films, everything you see there is fantastically real.

You do a James Bond film, you're being part of an anachronism, a tradition.

I'm a huge James Bond fan and watched the movies growing up.

Whenever you do anything with Bond, you've got Cubby Broccoli and Sean Connery looking over your shoulder.

I've always loved the Bond films.

If 'Trek' is a hit, we'd love to do a series of films - a regular event. Look at James Bond's films. They've been around since the early sixties.

I think everyone who goes to see a 'Bond' movie expects to be impressed by the look and the locations chosen. Certainly I was when I grew up watching them, and I don't think that's changed in the last 50 years.

My favorite Bond films are the really early ones, the first ones in fact, like 'Dr. No' and 'From Russia with Love.'

A James Bond film can be artistically fulfilling. Absolutely it can. It can be complex, and it can be interesting. I consider Bond movies to be an extension of popular theatre, a kind of modern mythology. You see the same sort of action in 'Punch and Judy' or in the folk theatre of various cultures, like 'Grand Guignol.'

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.

What I've appreciated about the 'Bond' films is there's always been a subtle social relevance to them. They've always commented on the times.

I feel like biopics are so difficult to get around.

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

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.

The beginning is perhaps more difficult than anything else, but keep heart, it will turn out all right.

Anything worth having is going to be hard

That's the most terrible mistake you can make: to relax. It's difficult to become a champion, but it's more difficult to maintain it for many years because you're getting too comfortable.

I have to say I was very lucky in this [movie] business. I was in the right place at the right time when I first got started.

Nothing in life is worthwhile unless it's kind of hard to get there.

Life isn’t supposed to be easy. Ever. But with the hardest challenges go the greatest rewards. And every incredible moment of my life came only after I did something that made my gut clench with fear. - Caleb

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.