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.
GUY RITCHIEIf you change the rules on what controls you… you will change the rules on what you can control.
More Guy Ritchie Quotes
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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 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 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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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 can understand that the whole world is interested in my wife Madonna. That’s even why I married her.
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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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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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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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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’d like to work with the missus, but there’s nothing in the pipeline at the moment.
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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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We are not that flash, me or the missus. In fact, we are quite low-maintenance.
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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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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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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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Sugar is responsible for a lot of deaths. Arguably more than crack cocaine.
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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 don’t know enough about Woody Allen to be a fan of him.
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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 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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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 like filming in the UK – I’ll sleep in my own bed, which I’m really happy about.
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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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It’s OK to have beliefs, just don’t believe in them.
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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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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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