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When I was doing Bond, I was always being sent scripts to play the derring-do hero, with explosions going on all around.

It'll be really cool to do, like, a solo film, a Firefist movie. I don't know if it would happen.

After I read 'The Hunger Games,' I went out and got 'Catching Fire' the next day.

You can, I think, have a quiet and steady protagonist and not run the risk of terminal dullness as long as exciting things happen to them and around them, and crime is the ideal genre for making this come about.

Keep watching 'The 100.' It's an incredible show, and that's my family.

I liked Live and Let Die, where money was no object.

When I get an idea for a book, something appeals to me, it's usually a character. I'll see a picture of a female marshal in front of the courthouse in Miami and she's got a shotgun on her hip and it goes up on an angle. And she's good-looking. And I say, 'I've got to use her.'

"Jack Reacher" was easy because the function of the villain was just to spread fear and horror.

A 'Torchwood' movie would be incredible. It would be sensational to have a beginning, a middle and an end in ninety minutes. A big walloping 'Torchwood' crunched into ninety minutes would be breathtaking.

In its brief 14-episode run, 'Firefly' gave viewers as much chance of witnessing a horseback chase or train robbery as a laser gun and spacefight in any given episode. Snappy one-liners and silly hats were a constant, of course.