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I think if you watch most of my films with the sound off, you could still tell what's going on.

Turn off the sound in a movie, and if you can tell what's going on, the movie should work.

I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.

Silent films were, I think, more different than we know to sound films. We think of it as simply that we added dialogue and in actual fact I think it was an entirely different art form.

I grew up in a drive-in theater, from the time I was 8, working in a snack bar watching four features every week. It was silent theater in the sense that this was a drive-in, which meant that I often saw the films going with no sound. But I learned to tell stories through action.

I've always been a bit of a sound freak in the movies I've done.

Well, everyone likes movies when they're a little kid.

For film at the beginning of the 20th century, they didn't even know what editing was yet. Actors didn't know how to perform in front of the camera. There wasn't sound.

I didn't go to the cinemas a lot as a kid.