Top 51 Guy Ritchie Quotes
#1. 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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#2. On Lock, Stock, we didn't know where the money for shooting the next day was coming from.
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#3. I'd like to work with the missus, but there's nothing in the pipeline at the moment.
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#4. I like filming in the UK - I'll sleep in my own bed, which I'm really happy about.
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#5. There's no such thing as problems, Mr. Green, only situations.
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#6. Sugar is responsible for a lot of deaths. Arguably more than crack cocaine.
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#7. 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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#8. The idea is that that there is no such thing as an external enemy.
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#9. It's about not letting the internal enemy, the real enemy, have his way because the more he does the stronger he becomes. The film's about the devastating results that can manifest from the internal enemy being unbridled and allowed to unleash chaos.
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#10. In fact, 95% of the people in my films have been nothing less than a pleasure to work with.
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#11. 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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#12. I can understand that the whole world is interested in my wife Madonna. That's even why I married her.
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#13. 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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#14. 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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#15. 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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#16. 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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#17. 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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#18. One of the interesting and exciting things about my job is watching technological ground being pioneered.
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#19. If you find a TV series that you like, you like the tone of the TV series or the movie.
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#20. 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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#21. All the other guys I think had a scream on Lock, Stock. They just had a laugh and a crack, and thought it would never come out; they were just having a good time. On this one, I felt that.
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#22. We always have a take that's 'one for fun', so once you've got what you need, you can do what you like. Something does occasionally pop out of that tree. I'm always open to ideas.
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#23. 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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#24. After Lock, Stock, all these really nasty small town characters came knocking at my door trying to tell me stories, and somehow I ended up with this guy whose brother was feeding people to pigs, and that's what he did to get rid of people.
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#25. 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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#26. Well, what I try to do is throw as much mud on the wall as I possibly can and just see what sticks, what shines as quirky or more interesting that the others, and I try to cling onto that one, somehow join a link from there to there.
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#27. 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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#28. Yeah, I'm certainly a lot more confident on this one than I was one the last one, which I think can be a good thing and a bad thing. But, at least I slept while making this film.
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#29. I think it's that much harder to make a good comedy than it is straight and apparently serious.
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#30. 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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#31. 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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#32. I don't know enough about Woody Allen to be a fan of him.
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#33. 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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#34. 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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#35. 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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#36. You get a different kick out of all aspects of filmmaking.
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#37. 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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#38. 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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#39. 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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#40. We are not that flash, me or the missus. In fact, we are quite low-maintenance.
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#41. I love fatherhood. I could bang on about kids forever.
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#42. 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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#43. 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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#44. 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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#45. It's OK to have beliefs, just don't believe in them.
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#46. 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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#47. 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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#49. They're all based on factual characters. Well, a good amount of them. That's why I was attracted to this genre anyways, because these characters are so large and cartoonish, they're like caricatures, I just felt that there had to be a film made about them.
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#50. I still love her. But she's retarded, too.
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#51. If you change the rules on what controls you ... you will change the rules on what you can control.
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