Words matter. These are the best Guy Ritchie Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I like to think that we’ve got a plan, so let’s stick to it. That said, once we’ve stuck to it, we’re allowed as much improvisation as anyone cares to indulge themselves in.
It’s not easy to strap yourself down to a desk and bash on a keyboard when you know you can direct lots of films, because directing films is fun and interactive and gregarious. Writing isn’t.
I think there’s a natural system in your own head about how much violence the scene warrants. It’s not an intellectual process, it’s an instinctive process.
On Lock, Stock, we didn’t know where the money for shooting the next day was coming from.
The idea is that that there is no such thing as an external enemy.
I’m not under too much of an illusion of how smart or un-smart I am because filmmaking ultimately is about teamwork.
I’m not politically motivated. I used to be – passionately. I used to be very Left wing. Then I went very Right wing, and now I rest somewhere in the middle.
Well, what I try to do is throw as much mud on the wall as I possibly can and just see what sticks, what shines as quirky or more interesting that the others, and I try to cling onto that one, somehow join a link from there to there.
Jake Green isn’t just Jake Green. Jake represents all of us. The colour green is the central column of the spectrum and the name Jake has all sorts of numerical values. All things come back to him within the film’s world of cons and games.
Previously, on Lock, Stock, I went to bed at two in the morning and woke up at five in the morning, and on this one I was known to nod off on the set occasionally.
My principal job is to make interesting and entertaining films, and I’m not proud of which format or which particular technique I use. I just wanted the film to look good.
Other than the fact that I like a country house, I can’t think of anything I’d want to spend my money on.
I like death. I’m a big fan of it.
They’re all based on factual characters. Well, a good amount of them. That’s why I was attracted to this genre anyways, because these characters are so large and cartoonish, they’re like caricatures, I just felt that there had to be a film made about them.
We always have a take that’s ‘one for fun’, so once you’ve got what you need, you can do what you like. Something does occasionally pop out of that tree. I’m always open to ideas.
What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they’re sort of larger than life and I think I’m still suffering from that reaction.
I can understand that the whole world is interested in my wife Madonna. That’s even why I married her.
I love fatherhood. I could bang on about kids forever.
We can all be conned but at what point do we realize that we’re being conned and to what point do we allow ourselves to be conned?
