Guy Ritchie
Guy Ritchie
Guy Stuart Ritchie is an English filmmaker known for his crime films. He left secondary school and got entry-level jobs in the film industry in the mid-1990s. He eventually graduated to directing commercials. He directed his first film in 1995, a 20-minute short which impressed investors who backed his first feature film, the crime comedy Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. He then directed another crime comedy, Snatch. His next two films, the romantic comedy Swept Awayand the crime drama...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth10 September 1968
CityHatfield, England
You get a different kick out of all aspects of filmmaking.
In fact, 95% of the people in my films have been nothing less than a pleasure to work with.
I am relatively familiar with getting a good old rumping from the critics. In some cases, the critics just didn't like the film - fair cop. Others, I think, didn't understand it.
I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of.
I like to think it's not violence for the sake of violence and in this particular film, it's actually violence for the annihilation of violence.
a very serious relationship. ... I will say marriage may lie in the future.
On Lock, Stock, we didn't know where the money for shooting the next day was coming from.
I anticipated they would be harsh but I don't hold it against them.
So It's really about characters and sub cultures again. About gypsies and things that I couldn't squeeze in the last one, I stuck in on this one.
So it's based on the formula that you can only get smarter by playing a smarter opponent. Who is the ultimate opponent? Yourself.
She's passionate about riding and knows that he is the man who can help her master the craft.
She has an idea and she can make it happen.
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 split all the bills 50-50. So what? That's perfectly normal, isn't it?