Whenever you do anything with Bond, you've got Cubby Broccoli and Sean Connery looking over your shoulder.

If you're good, you're always looking over your shoulder.

Governments can't keep looking over the shoulder or at the constellation of stars. You have got to do what you have got to do.

He could do this. He'd survived boot camp. He'd survived combat and the harsh weather of Afghanistan. He could survive broccoli. Probably.

Bond is a classic archetype character, a character that's embedded in our heads forever, one of a lone warrior setting out to avenge a nation - and you find that character across cultures.

In the case of 'Blood Stone,' the producers, EON, Michael Wilson, Barbara Broccoli, David Wilson and Gregg Wilson, had an idea for a story and had a lot of it done. And I came in, worked with them, fleshed it out.