Guy Ritchie Quotes

• 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!

  Guy Ritchie

• I’m not under too much of an illusion of how smart or un-smart I am because filmmaking ultimately is about teamwork.

  Guy Ritchie

• 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 Ritchie

• I’d like to work with the missus, but there’s nothing in the pipeline at the moment.

  Guy Ritchie

• 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.

  Guy Ritchie

• 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.

  Guy Ritchie

• I love fatherhood. I could bang on about kids forever.

  Guy Ritchie

• 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.

  Guy Ritchie

• I like death. I’m a big fan of it.

  Guy Ritchie

• 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 Ritchie

• I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of.

  Guy Ritchie

• I can understand that the whole world is interested in my wife Madonna. That’s even why I married her.

  Guy Ritchie

• I am not involved in any ‘issues’ because it’s too sensitive for me – or my wife – to get involved. Every time we express an opinion it becomes a whole thing in itself. And the whole purpose of living in the countryside was to get away from hundreds of people. My wife fell off a horse, and suddenly there are hundreds of people around.

  Guy Ritchie

• 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.

  Guy Ritchie

• 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.

  Guy Ritchie

Guy Ritchie (35)

Birth:	10th September, 1968
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Director, Producer, Screenwriter

About

Ritchie was born in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, the second of two children born to Amber and Captain John Vivian Ritchie, former Seaforth Highlanders serviceman and advertising executive. John's father was Major Stewart Ritchie, who died in France, in 1940, during World War Two. John's mother was Doris Margaretta McLaughlin, daughter of Vivian Guy McLaughlin and Edith Martineau. The McLaughlins have a pedigree going back to King Edward I of England. Ritchie's mother, Amber, later married a baronet. His father's second marriage was to Shireen Ritchie, Baroness Ritchie of Brompton, a former model and later Conservative politician and life peer.

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