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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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?”

“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.”

“I like death. I'm a big fan of it.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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!”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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