Guy Ritchie Quotes

As a director and filmmaker, I love creating my own opportunity, and getting to share the love, in that way, by creating other opportunities for people that I admire, so that they can do something in a way they haven't done it before.

Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport.

It's not just about acting. I love film, I'm a director now, I love writing, I love producing, I love having a company that makes films and to be prolific and have a place to put all the ideas that are constantly bubbling up inside of me and that don't let me sleep at night.

I love to produce, and I've directed two short films.

A film takes a lot of time, and yet not enough to share with the people you're making the movie with, I think.

Acting is always at the core of my life, but I'm also excited about producing. I'm excited about directing, and I have a life in the filmmaking world, and so I want to explore all aspects of it, not just the acting, but acting is the root.

I want to direct, produce, and write, learning as I go.

I would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct.

That's the joy of making a movie: watching all the elements come together.

I learned a lot from Direk Brillante Mendoza and Bing Lao.

Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read...if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.

I love working with actors. I love visual things. I always intended to be a writer who directs and a director who writes.

I do love making films. I want to be a filmmaker that grows and progresses and does keep trying to push myself. I think that's it... and a bit of confidence maybe.

We're lucky to be making films. My crew and I have been working together for a long time. I think that that's what emanates.

Even with college, the reason I wanted to go so badly is because I wanted to major in film. I want to take screenwriting classes and learn more about behind the scenes stuff, because I love people like Steve Carell and Kristen Wiig who are able to write a lot of their own material and be so involved in everything they do.

Making a movie like 'Felony' is hard work because you're really putting your own ideas on the screen. You can't hide behind some other person's script; you're saying, 'This is my brain, and I want you to know what I think'.'

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

I have stories that I'd like to maybe one day consider directing, but you need a lot of time to write and put it together.

I guess because I'm so young, I m not sure of what lies ahead for me. I'm more into going the route of producing and directing. I just made a little short film. I'm more excited about going the route of doing a Drew Barrymore or... what's the one from 'Star Wars?'

A lot of directors, they're creative, but they're different.

When I have a chance to make some movies, I am 200 percent to concentrate about my works.

I wasn't trained as a writer-director. And the projects I write are difficult to finish.

I think mostly it's the adventure that I will have in making the movie. That's what I look for.

I like the opportunity to make films.

You know, I feel like my job is to write a book. Then filmmakers come and they make a movie. And they're two really different art forms.