Brad [Pitt], poor geezer, was blown up, thrown around, burned, slapped, frozen. But never a moan or a whine. Now that’s what I call a real star.
GUY RITCHIEWhat 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.
More Guy Ritchie Quotes
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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?
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I’m not under too much of an illusion of how smart or un-smart I am because filmmaking ultimately is about teamwork.
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I’m single again and I wouldn’t have it any other way. I’m loving it at the moment. This is what I’ve been missing.
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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.
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I am relatively familiar with getting a good old rumping from the critics. In some cases, the critics just didn’t like the film – fair cop. Others, I think, didn’t understand it.
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Other than the fact that I like a country house, I can’t think of anything I’d want to spend my money on.
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We’re not unique. We’re quite volatile as individuals, but that doesn’t work exponentially when we are together. Relationships are about eating humble pie.
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I like filming in the UK – I’ll sleep in my own bed, which I’m really happy about.
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I suppose directing on set is the most fun because it’s a good crack and you feel you’re on the battlefield whereas writing is a fairly solitary undertaking.
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I like death. I’m a big fan of it.
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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.
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I love fatherhood. I could bang on about kids forever.
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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.
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I can understand that the whole world is interested in my wife Madonna. That’s even why I married her.
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It’s still too early to say how my wife will influence my life. But I do already know that it’s sometimes hard work living with her.
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The best thing to do is find one person in your life and try to love them unconditionally. If you’ve accomplished that, you’ve accomplished a lot.
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It’s OK to have beliefs, just don’t believe in them.
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I think everything you do, characters I always find, have their own voices and once you establish who that character is you find a different voice. I think it’s just a question of establishing that character and the voice speaks through that character.
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As I get more and more involved in the child’s world with Rocco his son I’m getting interested in making a film for children.
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One of the interesting and exciting things about my job is watching technological ground being pioneered.
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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.
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I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of.
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If you change the rules on what controls you… you will change the rules on what you can control.
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The idea is that that there is no such thing as an external enemy.
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Sugar is responsible for a lot of deaths. Arguably more than crack cocaine.
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I think it’s that much harder to make a good comedy than it is straight and apparently serious.
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