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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

Guy Ritchie

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" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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! "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I like death. I'm a big fan of it. "

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