“I have always thought if you are going to make a film, it's much bette...” — William Boyd Quote

I have always thought if you are going to make a film, it's much better to have an original script that will play to film's strengths.

What's important to me is that all of my books are in print - and, in a way, that becomes the challenge, not winning this prize or getting that review. It's that the work is there, and you can walk into many bookshops throughout the world and buy it.

In the broad spectrum of the arts, two worlds rarely overlap - the literary world and the world of rock music.

There is a disconnect between the film Bond and the literary Bond which is their contemporaneity. I don't suffer from that.

I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music.

Filmmakers often tell me to watch the original version. I never do.

The original version of 'Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang' was made to a Boz Scaggs song; I can't remember the name of the song.

And, you know, I think the original recording of Ravel's Bolero, probably whoever played percussion on that, will never have It played better than that.

I'm the original.