How does the film build on Casino Royale?
MF: At the end of the last film Bond was in a very vulnerable position, betrayed by the person he loved — which is a great setup for this sequel which starts 20 minutes after the last one ended. Obviously he has that revenge motive driving him forward, but I wanted to take him deeper into his character and emotion — what it does to an assassin to lose someone, what that death means to him on a psychological level. I don’t want to psychoanalyze Bond; the mystery of Bond speaks to why he is so successful, but emotionally you want so much to connect with him. How did you make Bond your own? I always loved the early Bonds — Dr. No, Goldfinger, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service — so I really wanted to create a film that is slightly retro with a ’60s-’70s style, a bit of Hitchcock thriller and Parallax View influence, but with a modern twist so it’s still very 21st century. To mix the two. I used location juxtapositions, like between the famous Siena horse race and a car chase, and there’s a v
