- "My chair hit the floor and I said in no uncertain terms that we would make a deal and that the KEY to the film[s] was spending enough money to maintain Fleming's tone in the sensuality, style, action and wit of the books." (on his reaction to being pitched the James Bond series by producers Albert Broccoli and Harry Saltzman)
- They never left that office until we had a deal. (About Harry Saltzman and Albert R Broccoli meeting him to make a deal for production of Dr.No.)
- [on 'Dr. No'] It's hard to look back today and say, 'What do you mean they didn't want to do the first James Bond?' But Columbia passed it, and I got it. There's no accounting foe how those decisions are made. It's just water under the bridge.
- The one thing about the arts is everybody comes away with their own opinions. Some people look at modern art and say it's just junk. Other people look at it and think it's fabulous and interesting.
- 'The Fugitive Kind' is a terrible picture. It just doesn't work. Other people may think it's a classic of some kind. They're entitled to think that.
- [comparing the films of the '60s and '70s with those in 2013] There was certainly great freedom, but I just saw two movies in the last few days that are fantastic. You go see 'Gravity'and you go see 'Nebraska', and you see two fabulous movies that couldn't be further apart in the economic risks involved and the potential gains involved. And yet both got made.
- [on his film career] Some of the people I dealt with I neither respected nor liked. It's the nature of the beast, but in the world of the arts it's probably even more - how should I say? - colorful.
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