One of the interesting and exciting things about my job is watching technological ground being pioneered.
GUY RITCHIEOne of the interesting and exciting things about my job is watching technological ground being pioneered.
GUY RITCHIEWe 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?
GUY RITCHIEThe 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.
GUY RITCHIEI think it’s that much harder to make a good comedy than it is straight and apparently serious.
GUY RITCHIEOther than the fact that I like a country house, I can’t think of anything I’d want to spend my money on.
GUY RITCHIEI’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.
GUY RITCHIEIf somebody has a better idea than me, I’ll take it if it surpasses what we have on the page because at the end of the day, it’s me that takes the credit anyway!
GUY RITCHIEIf you change the rules on what controls you… you will change the rules on what you can control.
GUY RITCHIEI 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.
GUY RITCHIEI got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of.
GUY RITCHIEPreviously, 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.
GUY RITCHIEYou get a different kick out of all aspects of filmmaking.
GUY RITCHIEWe are not that flash, me or the missus. In fact, we are quite low-maintenance.
GUY RITCHIEI’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.
GUY RITCHIEIt’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 RITCHIEIt’s OK to have beliefs, just don’t believe in them.
GUY RITCHIE