Guy Ritchie Quotes

You must plan to be spontaneous.

To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.

I don't plan. I don't think, 'I have to do this kind of part 'cause I've done that kind of part.' I'm not a very good planner.

I find it hard to pre-plan every element of everything I do. It's not my thing.

The fun stuff comes when someone is not so strict on sticking to the script. You're allowed the spontaneity, and great moments can happen.

I don't have a plan for a story when I sit down to write. I would get quite bored carrying it out.

I allow a lot of room for improvisation and funny stuff. I always feel planned.

My act is sort of improvisational. I have a skeleton in my head, but no fat or skin on it.

There's always some room for improvisation.

With 'Friday Night Lights,' we were encouraged to make it our own and improvise as much as we wanted.

My style is that I have no style.

It's not in my character to say what I'm going to do and how it's going to go.

I like to make an outline or cards and then utterly ignore them.

The Japanese really like things very well planned out. I enjoy things as they come by.

You have to stick to your plan. Throwing everything overboard and inventing something on the spot does not make sense. You will never get that from me.

I like to leave a little room to innovate and change things around while I'm working.

A lot of young actors have the idea that, "I've got to do this right. There's a right way to do this." But there's no right or wrong. There's only good and bad. And "bad" usually happens when you're trying too hard to do it right. There's a very broad spectrum of things that can inhibit you. The most important thing for actors - and not just actors, but everybody - is to feel loose enough to create what you want to create, and be free to try anything. To have choices.

I don't really have a certain format that I go by.

When you work with an actor and then you discover new things that are better, I think you gotta be free to be able to go with the new things that you're finding. I think that's very important. I have a strong idea when I go to shoot a movie but I also love to discover things when I'm on set as well.

I always feel I can play a role - just give me the time to do the preparation and I'll be it.

I like to improvise.

Do I have a long-term plan? Kind of. I have a general direction, I think. But it's funny what comes down the pike.

I think there are actors who are like, 'Okay, what am I doing, how am I doing it, what's the appeal? Tell me what to do, what are the exact lines from the script? Okay, I got it.' I am not that way. I would be a terrible bus driver. I'd want to be like, 'Oh, let's take this side road! Let's see what happens when we go down this back alley.'

I'm not somebody who plans. There were times I planned a lot in my life, and it never turns out how you plan it. So I think it's important not to. I'm a very spontaneous person.

I don't ever know where I'm going. Because one of the wonderful things about writing, which is different than working in programming, you don't need to know. You could just write and discover where you're going. And it's a great deal of fun.