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  Daniel Craig has said he wants to go back to classic elements of 007 for the next James Bond movie Skyfall. In previous interviews he cited From Russia, With Love (Sean Connery’s second and my personal favorite) and Live and Let Die (Roger Moore’s first) as two classics he wanted to influence the new film.

Craig talks about classic Bond in a new interview with Hollywood Outbreak.

Here are some highlights:

  “I think when Saltzman and Broccoli kick-started these movies, cast Sean Connery, spent the money they did, took the books – which are great had great stories… There was a huge amount of impetuous. Sean Connery has a lot to do with that.”

“They always made them about a family experience. They made them about going to your first movie as a child… ‘I remember my first Bond movie‘.”

“They continue to put the money on the screen. Whatever has happened, however good or bad [the movies] may be in the past, they’ve always put the money up there and have always had the ability to entertain. Barbara [Broccoli] and Michael [G. Wilson] are total lovers of this franchise and protect it fiercely and continue to do exactly the same thing as their father did.”

Thanks to MI6 for the story and their excellent coverage of all things Bond past and present.

My first Bond movie? Moonraker. Going to James Bond movies with my dad became a big tradition.

My dad’s favorite moments:

The fake horse’s ass lifting up to reveal a mini jet in the pre-credit sequence to Octopussy.

In A View to A Kill May Day (Grace Jones) dumping a man out of an airship then Max Zorin (Christopher Walken) saying “doesn’t anybody else want to drop out?”