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
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.
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 think everything you do, characters I always find, have their own voices and once you establish who that character is you find a different voice. I think it's just a question of establishing that character and the voice speaks through that character.
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 think it's that much harder to make a good comedy than it is straight and apparently serious.
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.
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.
My approach to violence is that if it's pertinent, if that's the kind of movie you're making, then it has a purposeI 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. 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.
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.
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.