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.
GUY RITCHIEI don’t know enough about Woody Allen to be a fan of him.
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I like death. I’m a big fan of it.
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I’d like to work with the missus, but there’s nothing in the pipeline at the moment.
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In fact, 95% of the people in my films have been nothing less than a pleasure to work with.
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I still love her. But she’s retarded, too.
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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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It’s OK to have beliefs, just don’t believe in them.
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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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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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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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The idea is that that there is no such thing as an external enemy.
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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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I like filming in the UK – I’ll sleep in my own bed, which I’m really happy about.
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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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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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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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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.
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The English countryside is the most staggeringly beautiful place. I can’t spend as much time there as I like, but I like everything about it. I like fishing, I like clay- pigeon shooting.
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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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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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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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I live on a bicycle, I live in central London, probably 90 percent of my travel is done on a bicycle. I love bicycles.
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I got too fed up with films that didn’t make you think. I liked the idea of one that you’d have to be dancing around with. I like my mind to be engaged when I watch a film.
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We are not that flash, me or the missus. In fact, we are quite low-maintenance.
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I don’t know enough about Woody Allen to be a fan of him.
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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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