Just don't tell French actor Mathieu Amalric (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) that his character is the bad guy.
"Dominic Greene is a great guy," Amalric (43) says.
"He has a big concern for environmental issues. He wants to help poor people to find their land again. He doesn't understand why Bond is looking for him!"
It may have something to do with Greene's plan to seize control of vital water supplies. But even Quantum director Marc Forster acknowledges that Greene isn't the typical Bond heavy.
"I think the villain should blend in," he said.
"It's important. Bond is ultimately now an antihero. The bad guy and the good guy are overlapping. Bond is not just good and the villain is not just bad. It's what I think is happening in the world. We are not all good and we are not all bad."
Still, Greene is as ruthless as they come, and the body count begins as his mysterious organisation, Quantum, tries to destabilise South America.
"The Bond films always hint about something of the time in which they are done," said Amalric.
"The thing today that is more frightening is that you don't know where the villains are. The thing that's really frightening in Quantum of Solace is that it's true. It's not a big fantasy like in the Bond films of the 1980s, where a madman wants to kill humankind.
"In Quantum, you have a secret organisation. You don't know where they are."