Val Guest quotes
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“And then she finally said yes. And we have been married, I want you to know, for 51 years.”
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“We worked solidly for a long time together. George Marriott Edgar and myself.”
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“I wrote Murder at the Windmill. And it was accepted and we made it and it was the first film I made with Danny Angel, well the only film I actually made... I made a lot of it at the Windmill itself.”
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“I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.”
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“I had a terrible job letting me do anything that wasn't comedy.”
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“And he said that he wrote the Bond character based on the character of David Niven. That's how he saw Bond.”
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“I don't know how we had about eighteen international stars in it, all playing James Bond.”
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“Now, I'll tell you something that might interest you. Casino Royale was the first Bond book that Ian Fleming ever wrote. And he couldn't get anybody to touch it, to publish it - he couldn't do anything about it at all. Nobody wanted to know.”
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“Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.”
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“Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the early days of testing nuclear bombs, that Russia and America happened to test a nuclear bomb at the same moment at different ends of the earth.”
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“No, we didn't shoot... in the ones that I did there were hardly any sex... there were suggestions of sex scenes but we never actually shot a sex scene as such.”
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“Yes, The Persuaders, that was great fun because one of my favourite actors is Roger Moore.”
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