Daniel Craig wants his Bond movies to hark back to Connery`s early days

03-Dec-2007 • Quantum Of Solace

In an interview with NY Daily News, Daniel Craig has said he wants his James Bond films to be stylish like Sean Connery's first two outings "Dr No" and "From Russia With Love".

Q: Aside from the personal intrusion, the general media scrutiny was very high for your Bond debut, and you proved yourself - the film was a huge hit, the biggest Bond ever.

It's done all right. [Laughs] But therein lies the rub.

Q: Because now it's double the pressure?

Weirdly enough, it doesn't feel much different than the last time around. I'm not getting quite so much abuse from the English tabloids - but that could still change! [Laughs]

But the pressure is there. If I only make a couple of Bond films, I'd like to be able to look back on at least one of them and think "Oh, that was a good [one]."

I know that sounds like a simplistic way of looking at it, but in terms of moviemaking, we want to make something that looks beautiful, looks stylish. I want this to be a Bond movie, and Bond movies, to me, are "Dr. No" and "From Russia With Love" - they had a style about them that was amazing and different.

Q: Can you look back at "Casino Royale" and enjoy it as a "good Bond film," or are you still too close to it?

I was very happy with the outcome. I saw it on the small editing screens with no sound effects, no music of any sort and watched it from beginning to end and thought, "The story works." At that point I thought that we were going to be okay. 'Cause when you start adding the music and the special effects, the movie starts expanding out - and it did. [It] pulled together in a way that I don't think people were expecting.... That was where we set the bar. Now we have to go for it again. And hopefully go higher.