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Sean Connery
- Ian Fleming on the casting of Connery "Fleming was not pleased with the choice of Sean Connery
as Bond. He wanted a man called Roger Moore. I said, 'Ian, we don't want Roger
Moore because he is The Saint, and that may be difficult to overcome.' He finally
met Connery in Jamaica at Goldeneye. They became very good friends, and Fleming
liked him." "As to Bond the man, one must always
use the humanity of his character. We have to start with him as a man, because
however original the gadgets are, it's the human being with all his human instincts
who has to overcome the obstacles, isn't it?" "Bond
has no mother, he has no father. He doesn't come from anywhere and he hadn't been
anywhere before he became 007. So he was born -- kerplump--33 years old. So I
had to breathe life into an idol." "I'm not into
hardware, rockets and extraordinary guns that can blow 50 people away at once.
It's what really got me out of the Bond films -- they all went in the same direction." "Sean
Connery created the part, I mean he was splendid. Those films burst upon our consciousness
in those days with terrific force. You kind of accepted him as Bond from the first.
I think he got better as he went on. In fact, Dr. No is still my favorite
Bond movie."
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