Everything or Nothing

526 00:33:08,441 --> 00:33:09,817 Very stressful. 527 00:33:09,900 --> 00:33:12,486 And that's what caused him to have the heart attack. 528 00:33:14,697 --> 00:33:16,574 Bond had helped kill him. 529 00:33:17,491 --> 00:33:20,953 You create this monster and the monster ends up by destroying you. 530 00:33:22,997 --> 00:33:25,541 There was the very moving occasion 531 00:33:25,624 --> 00:33:28,961 when he was asked to describe fame and success. 532 00:33:30,713 --> 00:33:33,132 "Ashes, dear boy, ashes." 533 00:33:44,352 --> 00:33:47,271 Ian Fleming assured Harry and Cubby 534 00:33:47,355 --> 00:33:49,732 that they had nothing to worry about withThunderball 535 00:33:49,815 --> 00:33:52,693 as far as Mr. Kevin McClory was concerned. 536 00:33:53,736 --> 00:33:55,821 It turned out to be a little bit different. 537 00:33:58,866 --> 00:34:00,868 Kevin did believe that Bond was his. 538 00:34:03,287 --> 00:34:05,289 And he wasn't gonna give it up. 539 00:34:17,093 --> 00:34:22,348 I'd believed in '65 that Bond was, in fact, here to stay 540 00:34:23,516 --> 00:34:25,559 a very, very long time. 541 00:34:25,851 --> 00:34:31,732 Depending on who makes the films, there lies the measure of success. 542 00:34:33,859 --> 00:34:36,862 The court case gave him the rights to filmThunderball. 543 00:34:37,530 --> 00:34:40,241 And he tried to makeThunderballhimself. 544 00:34:40,324 --> 00:34:42,118 Cubby and Harry did not want 545 00:34:42,201 --> 00:34:45,371 Kevin McClory making an independent Bond. 546 00:34:46,330 --> 00:34:49,583 It would sabotage the whole phenomena, kill the golden goose. 547 00:34:52,628 --> 00:34:56,132 It made sense to bring him into the fold. 548 00:34:56,465 --> 00:34:59,176 So they got together and made a deal with Kevin. 549 00:35:00,344 --> 00:35:03,264 One of the provisions was that Kevin would be the sole producer. 550 00:35:04,681 --> 00:35:08,143 And Saltzman and Broccoli were the executive producers. 551 00:35:08,227 --> 00:35:11,730 Do you think they'd let this guy come in off the street and be a producer 552 00:35:11,814 --> 00:35:14,859 if there wasn't a situation that could not be avoided? 553 00:35:15,818 --> 00:35:19,780 Despite all these problems, it was an incredibly successful film. 554 00:35:19,864 --> 00:35:21,907 It was the most successful Bond film to date. 555 00:35:24,452 --> 00:35:26,203 At the end of the making ofThunderball, 556 00:35:26,286 --> 00:35:30,748 the expectation was that that was the end of the involvement with Kevin McClory. 557 00:35:30,833 --> 00:35:34,003 But they made a mistake. The writing was on the wall. 558 00:35:35,129 --> 00:35:39,300 Kevin McClory was given the rights, after a certain period of time, 559 00:35:39,383 --> 00:35:41,510 to remakeThunderball. 560 00:35:42,511 --> 00:35:46,098 That was the brilliance of what McClory did. 561 00:35:46,974 --> 00:35:51,103 And therein you can lay all of the problems that came later. 562 00:36:17,213 --> 00:36:19,590 When you get invited to do a Bond film, 563 00:36:19,672 --> 00:36:22,760 you're already on this bandwagon of success. 564 00:36:24,512 --> 00:36:27,765 The only thing that can go wrong is if you mess it up. 565 00:36:27,848 --> 00:36:32,478 I must insist that you don't say anything until I give you instructions. 566 00:36:33,270 --> 00:36:36,315 As the saying goes, you're only as good as your last movie. 567 00:36:37,817 --> 00:36:42,947 The biggest challenge in the creativity is to do something never seen before 568 00:36:43,030 --> 00:36:47,493 that makes it more unique and that is a very, very difficult thing to accomplish. 569 00:36:48,536 --> 00:36:53,082 When we didYou Only Live Twice, taking a unit into a place like Japan 570 00:36:53,415 --> 00:36:55,125 was very difficult in itself. 571 00:36:56,960 --> 00:36:58,796 Bond was so big in Japan. 572 00:36:59,463 --> 00:37:02,007 We couldn't shoot on any locations whatsoever 573 00:37:02,091 --> 00:37:04,844 without attracting the most enormous crowd. 574 00:37:04,927 --> 00:37:08,806 Something in the region of 400 journalists. 575 00:37:10,641 --> 00:37:12,685 It got out of hand. 576 00:37:13,227 --> 00:37:15,020 Sean couldn't move anywhere. 577 00:37:15,521 --> 00:37:18,940 It was impossible. Somebody spotted him and he disappeared. 578 00:37:19,733 --> 00:37:22,736 They were nearly tearing the clothes off his back. 579 00:37:22,820 --> 00:37:25,739 Never been so pressurized in my life. 580 00:37:25,823 --> 00:37:27,741 It's the invasion of one's privacy 581 00:37:27,825 --> 00:37:30,286 and you get some real head-cases that come round. 582 00:37:30,661 --> 00:37:32,746 Now he's an actor. He's here to do a job. 583 00:37:32,830 --> 00:37:36,083 He's here and he has not been given the privilege and respect 584 00:37:36,166 --> 0