Guy Ritchie quotes

Guy Ritchie is an English film director, producer, and screenwriter, best known for his stylish crime comedies. His work often features fast-paced storytelling, witty dialogue, and memorable characters. He has become a significant influence on modern British cinema. Here are 35 of his quotes:

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

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

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

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

Guy Ritchie

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

Guy Ritchie

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

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

Guy Ritchie

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

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

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

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

Guy Ritchie

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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