If you change the rules on what controls you… you will change the rules on what you can control.
GUY RITCHIEBrad [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.
More Guy Ritchie Quotes
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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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I think it’s that much harder to make a good comedy than it is straight and apparently serious.
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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.
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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’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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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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If 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!
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One of the interesting and exciting things about my job is watching technological ground being pioneered.
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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 got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of.
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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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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 don’t like the idea of agents in a typical form. The idea of agents, to me, brings up the idea of a man in a very boring suit who’s not very good looking and doesn’t have much attention to style.
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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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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.
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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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I love fatherhood. I could bang on about kids forever.
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We are not that flash, me or the missus. In fact, we are quite low-maintenance.
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If you find a TV series that you like, you like the tone of the TV series or the movie.
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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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You get a different kick out of all aspects of filmmaking.
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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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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.
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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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It’s OK to have beliefs, just don’t believe in them.
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