Overblown Quotes

(March 2004) They`re too scared. They feel they have to top themselves in a genre which is just spectacle and a huge bang for your buck. But I think you can have your cake and eat it. You can have real character work, a character storyline and a thriller aspect and all kinds of quips, asides, the explosions and the women. We`re just saturated with too many overblown action films with no plot. That`s ludicrous. It`s so damn crazy! That`s absolutely sheer lunacy because "Casino Royale" is the blueprint of the Bond character. You find out more about James Bond in that book than in any of the other books. I would love to do a fifth Bond and then bow out, but if this last one is to be my last, then so be it. My contract is up. They can do it or not.

In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don`t really need to explain very much at all - you just say he`s a spy and he`s a little bit theatrical and overblown and smug and he`s not very good at his job.

I`ve mixed it up with the heavyweights, ... The big-man, little-man thing is overblown.

Trying to tie this in with terrorism is a little overblown because you can`t communicate that kind of information over a non-secured system that goes outside the FBI anyway.