:I never wanted to be James Bond," Daniel Craig says brusquely. Other people may have had that fantasy growing up, he says; all power to them, but he never did. So there is no point asking him how it feels to be living that dream. "I don't know how that feels. What I do on screen is a total invention, a totally made-up thing. It's as far from me as anything is possible to be. That's the acting challenge: that I have to pretend to be this super-spy, when . . . I'm a kid from Liverpool." Skyfall is Daniel Craig's third outing as 007. It is also his best, which cements his standing as the best Bond since Sean Connery defined the role in the 1960s. Together with director Sam Mendes, the notable English theatre director - whose last film before Skyfall was the witty indie comedy Away We Go, also about as far from Bond as it's possible for anything to be - Craig pushed for more lightness this time around than he had been able to play in Casino Royale or Quantum of Solace, with a few more of the flip ripostes and bad puns that used to be Bond's hallmarks. Mendes has also brought back a version of Q (Ben Whishaw), the "quartermaster" whose predecessors provided generations of Bonds with fun spying gadgets. In Skyfall, spymaster M (Judi Dench) is being targeted along with her colleagues at MI6. Cyber-security breaches at the organisation have led to