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.
GUY RITCHIEI got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of.
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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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It’s OK to have beliefs, just don’t believe in them.
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I like death. I’m a big fan of it.
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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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The idea is that that there is no such thing as an external enemy.
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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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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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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 don’t know enough about Woody Allen to be a fan of him.
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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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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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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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One of the interesting and exciting things about my job is watching technological ground being pioneered.
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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.
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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 like filming in the UK – I’ll sleep in my own bed, which I’m really happy about.
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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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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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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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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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If you change the rules on what controls you… you will change the rules on what you can control.
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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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I’d like to work with the missus, but there’s nothing in the pipeline at the moment.
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I love fatherhood. I could bang on about kids forever.
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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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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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