8 December 2012 4:04 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The director of Skyfall talks about the pleasures and pains of making Britain's highest-grossing film ever
Sam Mendes, director of Skyfall, hesitates. He is thinking about James Bond. It is, after all, partly thanks to him that Bond has recently acquired a psyche. But his case history is not easy to sum up. After a moment, he laughingly says that, were Bond on the couch, he would tell him: "You have many demons. If I were to put you into Freudian analysis, you would be there for the next 200 years. What I strongly advise is a change of career. Why not run a small shop?"
This is not advice anyone is about to give Mendes himself. His charmed career has reached new heights. He started out as a 24-year-old dynamo directing Judi Dench in the West End. He founded and ran the Donmar theatre for 10 years from 1990. He won five »
- Kate Kellaway
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