Doug Liman Quotes

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 always wanted to make a 'James Bond' film, and they only seemed to hire British directors, and I'd made 'Swingers' - they were never going to hire me for a 'James Bond' film off 'Swingers.'

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

Any time anyone fires bullets in an action movie that don't hit the target it immediately undermines the movie.

I don't know how we had about eighteen international stars in it, all playing James Bond.

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

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.

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

I remember I went to audition for the first Daniel Craig Bond film, 'Casino Royale.' I was there in this Versace dress, and I remember looking in the mirror, and I couldn't have felt less like a Bond girl if I tried.

'License to Kill' is not one of the great Bond movies.

I grew up on the Roger Moore and Sean Connery Bond movies, so the DNA of my spies is extremely ridiculous and goofy.

My husband was actually very keen that I would become a Bond girl.

I would love to be a Bond girl. That is on my bucket list, definitely.

My life's ambition is to play a James Bond villain. I have the cat and the eye-patch, so I'm just waiting for the call. For some reason, though, the phone hasn't rung.

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

I really enjoyed 'Casino Royale' because suddenly something changed with this modernity and with Daniel bringing life to James Bond in a very new way.

My ideal role would be a baddie in a James Bond film. I think the wheelchair and the computer voice would fit the part.

I didn't see Dr. No for a year, but I liked it when I saw it. It was a fun movie. I don't like the Bond movies now. I hate special effects.

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.

I grew up on the Bond movies. The first one I saw was 'Diamonds Are Forever,' when I was a kid. I just loved them to pieces.

No action hero is more closely associated with cars than James Bond.

I would love to work on a Bond film.

I want to be like Matt Damon and do a hugely successful thinking-man's action franchise like 'Bourne.'

A James Bond movie is a stuntman's dream.

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