As filming begins on the next installment on the James Bond franchise, the director reflects on the events that got him here and what his main character is dealing with at the beginning of the film.

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In an interview with Entertainment Now last week, Sam Mendes talked about the process he went through when he was contemplating coming back and the driving force behind that decision: telling a good story with these characters.

"At the end of the day, it came down to story. We [brought] back three or four characters in the last movie [Skyfall] I felt a real attachment to and started a story for Bond that I felt we hadn't completed, and when the dust settled on the last picture - I'd sort of gone off and done other things - I really felt like it was a story I wanted to tell," he said.

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"At the end of the day, that's the reason you do any movie. You just want to tell the story and you feel that you've got a way of telling it that's specific to you and so [it] was the story and script that got me back."

Mendes also talked about what Bond was dealing with after the last movie and how that would affect the events that take place early in the next one.

There are significant things that happen to [Bond] in this movie that are exciting... I think we introduced the idea in the last movie - with [Judi Dench] M's death - that time is actually passing for the first time in a Bond movie," he said.

"That people are fallible, physically and emotionally, and somewhere under the surface of that action movie there was a meditation on aging... We don't tell the same story in this movie, but we definitely tell a story that is directly related to it, and that's the thing I'm excited to do."

Spectre hits theaters on Nov. 6, 2015.