Daniel Craig: MSN Interview

Q:  Good to be back in the designer suits?
DC: I never got out... It’s nice to be back in general.

Q: What does title of the film – Quantum Of Solace - mean to you?

DC: We talked long and hard about it. We could have gone for a snappier title, but that wasn’t really part of the deal. We wanted to suggest something that was part of where he (Bond) was when we left him at the end of the movie. There’s a short story that this comes from: Ian Fleming says that if there’s no quantum of solace left in your relationship, it’s over. And that’s where he was at the end of the movie. He didn’t get any. And he doesn’t have that level of comfort in himself, the answers to his questions: Who killed his girlfriend? Who’s responsible as far as her death’s concerned? But also who is head of the organisation that he wants to go looking for. So there’s an element of revenge there, which tidies up, but also luckily enough, it implies something very important in the plot as well, there’s a tie in, so it’s not just some random name that we plucked out of the air. Believe me, we worked quite hard on the name.

 

Quantum Of Solace Special

Q: What’s different about this one so far?
DC: Well look, we’ve got a new director who’s taking the movie, as far as I’m concerned, to a very good place. We’ve got a new art director, who’s making the movie look very different. Every time we do one of these films, we’re spending a lot of money to put something on the screen and it should be the best we can make it. Getting Mark Forster involved was part of that process. The emotion we got with the last movie we want to put into this, but we also realise that this has to be a huge action movie. And that has to tie in with the story, and we have to top it. We have to top it and that’s all I have to say!

Q: More Gadgets this time?
DC: Maybe a few, but not many. They’re part of the story - the world’s full of gadgets. Reinventing gadgets in this movie I just don’t think is interesting. What gadgets we have are in the plot, and they drive the story along.

Q: And the car?
DC: The car’s still there, yeah, that’s the best gadget.

Q:  Does the character arc continue in this one?
DC: Yes, I think so. I mean I’m not looking to find a conclusion, but we’re certainly getting to a better place. He’s applying his emotions into his professional life which probably isn’t always the right thing to do. His emotion drives him, and his anger drives him, and his passion drives him, and I think that’s interesting. So I am gonna apply that in this one and, luckily, we have a great script. But that doesn’t mean it’s going to be any less of a Bond movie than the last one, in fact I think it’s more of a Bond movie, and maybe more of a classical Bond movie than the last one was.

Q: Why is it more of a classical Bond movie?
DC: because of the way we’re making it look. There is a touch of Ken Adam in there, a touch of the sixties’ classic spy movies. But you know, we’re being subtle. There’s no big, broad brush strokes here.

Q: Is this going to be a more mature Bond?
DC: He probably misbehaves more in this one than the last one. He’s mature, at times. But not all the time.

Q: Dan Bradley (Second unit Director and Bourne franchise stunt coordinator) is on this, is that an indication this movie is going to get even more Bourne-like?
DC: Did you think it was Bourne-like before? Dan’s here to do exactly what he’s good at doing. He’s just come of Indiana Jones so you might as well ask if we’re going to be more Indiana Jones-like. I’m certainly not going to get into a pissing competition with the Bourne franchise. We’re making a Bond movie.

 

 

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