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 RITCHIEI 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.
More Guy Ritchie Quotes
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The idea is that that there is no such thing as an external enemy.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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 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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Sugar is responsible for a lot of deaths. Arguably more than crack cocaine.
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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 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 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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It’s OK to have beliefs, just don’t believe in them.
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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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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 are not that flash, me or the missus. In fact, we are quite low-maintenance.
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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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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 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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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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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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