Connery sitting with Bond author Ian Fleming, right, who visited the set. Connery said: ‘When I spoke about Bond with Fleming, he said that when the character was conceived, Bond was a very simple, straightforward, blunt instrument of the police force, a functionary who would carry out his job rather doggedly. But he also had a lot of idiosyncrasies that were considered snobbish – such as a taste for special wines, etc’
Source: theguardian.com