Terence Young

There was no actual person who was James Bond, despite all the books.

I don't think anything you've written is immortal as yet.

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

I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

I have a little bit of a belly, a tiny bit of pooch. It's the one thing I don't want to lose. I just like having some softness. If I lose that, then Tom might leave me.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.