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.
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?
More Guy Ritchie Quotes
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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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I think it’s that much harder to make a good comedy than it is straight and apparently serious.
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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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I can understand that the whole world is interested in my wife Madonna. That’s even why I married her.
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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 idea is that that there is no such thing as an external enemy.
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I love fatherhood. I could bang on about kids forever.
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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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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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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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If you change the rules on what controls you… you will change the rules on what you can control.
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It’s OK to have beliefs, just don’t believe in them.
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We are not that flash, me or the missus. In fact, we are quite low-maintenance.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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 like death. I’m a big fan of it.
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You get a different kick out of all aspects of filmmaking.
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