Guy Ritchie Quotes Page 2

“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.”

“Sugar is responsible for a lot of deaths. Arguably more than crack cocaine.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“The most nervous I've ever been was on a 250 pound music video which is the first thing I ever did. And I stepped on there with a directing partner, so I could blame him when everything went t*ts up. But since then my nerves have incrementally decreased so I'm not plagued by the same sense of nerves as I used to be.”

“There is something about yourself that you don't know. Something that you will deny even exists until it's too late to do anything about it. It's the only reason you get up in the morning, the only reason you suffer the sh*tty boss, the blood, the sweat and the tears. This is because you want people to know how good, attractive, generous, funny, wild and clever you really are. "Fear or revere me, but please think I'm special." We share an addiction. We're approval junkies. We're all in it for the slap on the back and the gold watch. The "hip, hip, hoo-f*cking-rah." Look at the clever boy with the badge, polishing his trophy. Shine on, you crazy diamond. Cos we're just monkeys wrapped in suits, begging for the approval of others.”

“There's no such thing as problems, Mr. Green, only situations.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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?”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“You get a different kick out of all aspects of filmmaking.”