(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.
- Pierce BrosnanI want people to go to the movies. I am the man of the spectacle. I`m playing.
- Roman PolanskiI loved old black and white movies, especially the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. I loved everything about them - the songs, the music, the romance and the spectacle. They were real class and I knew that I wanted to be in that world.
- Sharon StoneI`d love to follow the Tour de France one day. It`s a really exciting spectacle. I`ve only seen it once as it was coming into Paris and that was very exciting for me. I have memories of that.
- Bryan Ferry(His diary entry after viewing Star Wars (1977) for the first time): It`s a pretty staggering film as spectacle and technically brilliant. Exciting, very noisy and warm-hearted. The battle scenes at the end go on for five minutes too long, I feel, and some of the dialogue is excruciating and much of it is lost in noise, but it remains a vivid experience. The only really disappointing performance was Anthony Daniels as the robot, fidgety and over-elaborately spoken. Not that any of the cast can stand up to the mechanical things around them.
- Alec GuinnessI know people like spectacle, but I`m interested in moving people.
- Estelle ParsonsAs for the level of spectacle of the two disciplines, I leave it to the people who watch the races to comment.
- Valentino RossiOne is the pin the blame on the media with the references to the tabloid spectacle, ... One is the assertion of full cooperation with the police. One is the carving of a moat around his private life. And one is the use of constructive ambiguity with references to not being perfect but with no explanation for what those imperfections are.
- Mike DoyleEnglish cricket must convince cricket`s new fans that a day at a county match can be just as engaging a spectacle as watching the Ashes on TV.
- Dan JonesAs long as my body holds out, I`ll be grooving when I`m 70, and not some sort of horrible spectacle.
- Nick LoweThe spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world.
- Alex HalavaisPeace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.
- Alfredo AlonsoSt Michaels Mount is a favourite place of mine; people will walk across to the Mount all day and assume they will be able to walk home. The spectacle of hundreds of people realising that the path they walked over on is disappearing under several feet of water is very amusing.
- Alisha ValenzuelaIt was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London.
- Andrew BucklePeace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world...
- Angie BrownWhen Tampa Prep and Berkeley Prep get together, it is a spectacle to see. Everyone gets excited, and it`s a special thing to be part of.
- Atul WahiYou see here before you the spectacle of a Plantagenet, who hath been carried from the nursery to the sanctuary; from the sanctuary to the direful prison; from the prison to the hand of the cruel tormentor; and from that hand to the wide wilderness, as I may truly call it, for so the world hath been to me.
- Austin Osman Spare