those sort of cars around. Did you want to add machine guns to the cars from the beginning or was that something that came along as other technology did? GP: It developed as we went along. There were sort of pieces of a jigsaw puzzle that got put together. We've got the car there, and it's like, 'Right, what can we do with the car?' Ideas were thrown on the table. It sort of just made sense to put it there. Bond fans are going to love it. And also, we can get inside the car now, because the cameras are smaller now, whereas years ago the cameras were massive, so you could never have done this sort of dialogue interior car stuff that we can do nowadays. There's tracking vehicles where we can be outside the cars while dangling Judi Dench inside. Modern technology obviously really helps out in numerous ways when we're doing films now. Are you a life-long Bond fan? GP: I have been, for a long time. The first one I've seen was Diamonds Are Forever (1971). I didn't really know what a Bond film was then, I can just remember it being sort of a really cool film. Bond's in that little space pod driving across the desert, getting chased by cars. I just thought it was brilliant. It wasn't until The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) came out, and then I understood what a Bond character was. Watching the Bond films back then, did