Guy Ritchie Quotes

• You get a different kick out of all aspects of filmmaking.

  Guy Ritchie

• 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.

  Guy Ritchie

• 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.

  Guy Ritchie

• 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.

  Guy Ritchie

• We’re quite volatile as individuals, but that doesn’t work exponentially when we are together. Relationships are about eating humble pie.

  Guy Ritchie

• 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?

  Guy Ritchie

• We are not that flash, me or the missus. In fact, we are quite low-maintenance.

  Guy Ritchie

• 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.

  Guy Ritchie

• 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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• The idea is that that there is no such thing as an external enemy.

  Guy Ritchie

• 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.

  Guy Ritchie

• 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.

  Guy Ritchie

• 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.

  Guy Ritchie

• Other than the fact that I like a country house, I can’t think of anything I’d want to spend my money on.

  Guy Ritchie

• On Lock, Stock, we didn’t know where the money for shooting the next day was coming from.

  Guy Ritchie

• 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.

  Guy Ritchie

• 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.

  Guy Ritchie

• 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.

  Guy Ritchie

• 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.

  Guy Ritchie

• In fact, 95% of the people in my films have been nothing less than a pleasure to work with.

  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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