Whilst on location in Austria this week, principal cast and crew members on "Quantum of Solace" spoke to the media about shooting the new James Bond adventure...

Production Diary (31)
9th May 2008

Media visited the location filming of the upcoming James Bond film "Quantum of Solace" in Bregenz, Austria, earlier this week where scenes were being filmed on the floating "Tosca" opera stage. Principal cast and crew members - including Daniel Craig (007), Olga Kurylenko (Camille), Mathieu Amalric (Dominic Greene), Anatole Taubman (Elvis), Jesper Christensen (Mr White), director Marc Forster, and production designer Dennis Gassner - spoke to television and gave roundtable interviews to the press. Click here for coverage of the photocall.

Daniel Craig
We've got a set of incredibly talented and rich team of people who are making this movie and who are throwing so much energy in to it. Everybody is working incredibly hard, as they want to, because they are proud to be involved with a Bond movie and the Bond franchise itself.

Yes, this is a different Bond we're making. One of the things that we were setting up in the last movie was that Bond has begun and that it's the beginning of his career and his attitude towards life and women was very narrow minded. He had his heart broken in Casino Royale, and so this one is more about him coming to terms about that and maybe learning a bit about himself and who he is - and he's James Bond.

Above: Bond and Camille from scenes at the end of the movie shot in Chile last month

On The Stunts - I haven't hurt myself badly on this movie, but I've been sore every day. I enjoy the physical side of filming, I always have. I've thrown myself in to this because I get a kick out of it and we can do things and achieve things that make the plot and the storyline move forward much better if I stay involved in as much of the filming as possible.

On 'Being' James Bond - I'm as far removed from this character as I could possibly be... so this is major acting. Sometimes with characters it's to greater or lesser degrees. I had never done something on the scale of Casino Royale before, so that obviously created very different feelings for me, and very different challenges compared to movies I'd done before. So the outcome was very different too because we had such a great success with it.

I tend to separate who I am and what I do, and this is what I think you have to do. Who I am is something very private. I like the job of acting, every aspect of it. The collective process of making a film... to work with interesting and talented people who inspire you... That for me has been the essential part of what I do.

Above: Dominic Greene arrives at the opera, and relaxes in the executive box

Jesper Christensen
Last time Bond spent the whole of Casino Royale learning the lesson that you don't kill people before you ask them the important questions. He learned that - he shot me in the knee. So we start the next one with him asking me the questions. And then he screws up and stuff happens.

Anatole Taubman
I've been on big sets, big productions but this is really a whole empire. It is a world brand so you do feel that. You also feel the pressure that something big's going to come out of this. Big anticipation. Casino Royale set new trends within that format. I'm sure Marc Forster, who is amazing, will manifest that whole new dynamic, that whole new realism that Casino Royale so beautifully started.

Above Left: Mr White is interrogated at an MI6 safe house in Siena, Italy Above Right: Anatole Taubman plays henchman Elvis

Marc Forster
I wouldn't call it revenge, it's more a case of psychological damage. Bond is trying to figure out who these people are and what is the relationship between them, because he is realizing just how many there are. He is trying to figure out how they are connected because the interesting thing is we have several bad guys in this movie. Dominic Greene is the lead one but there are a couple of other ones and he is trying to connect them all.

Dennis Gassner
I've created massive sets in six countries. It's been an amazing journey. He is James Bond, so I've taken that great angular face and great blue eyes and used that as our pattern language for this film

Above Left: Director Marc Forster takes notes during filming in Chile Above Right: The floating stage hosting the "Tosca" opera performance