Guy Ritchie Quotes

I don't know if the money I've earned is going to need to last me for the next few weeks or the rest of my life.

I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.

I have no idea how much money I've got.

Being on a movie set is like one long financial crisis.

Tell a woman it's going to rain, and she'll get out the umbrellas. Well, in the matter of money, there's always the chance of rain ahead.

I'm used to always having struggles getting finances together and keeping precarious budgets alive in the independent film world.

I never think about the budget of the film.

No matter what business you're in, business is business, and financing and money are critical. I would have made a lot fewer mistakes if I had more schooling in that area.

I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.

If you're a producer, you always spend too much money because you want that shot - and you're willing to spend a bundle to get it.

My business life is really simple. It's like, get check. Put check in bank. Pay rent. I've never bought a stock in my life. I never got caught up in that trip. And the truth is, I don't obsess about money ever.

The movies I usually do are maybe three or four weeks because they don't have a lot of money.

Because television doesn't offer the kind of budget that a movie offers, you've got to be a little more careful where you spend the money to put the fiction in science.

You have to manage money. Particularly with market economies. You may have a great product, but if your bottom line goes bust, then that's it.

This is the profession I chose, and you really learn to save your money because you never know how it's going to go, but you still want to get out there and work.

As soon as you're at the higher levels of budgeting, you've got to get the film made, and the only way to support the film is to have actors who can support the budget.

Shooting films in Britain is always difficult, because we've never got enough money to make them.

When you're making an independent film, it's like this actor plus this actor equals this funding, this financing. Pull this actor out, this actor is still here but this money's gone. It's this frightening puzzle mosaic that is the world of independent film.

I started LearnVest with a tiny savings account where I paid designers, technologists, and even bartered... Because I started with paying for things myself with my own savings, it sharpened my focus of how to spend money.

I think a lot of Hollywood is in retreat right now trying to figure out how to make money and make the safest bets.

I have observed that money left without special guidance is sometimes used well and sometimes not.

If there's something that can be formulated, regulated, give you security, then nobody would lose money. Every movie would be successful. And that's certainly not the case.

Shooting 'Adam & Paul' was very tough. There was barely enough time, and the budget was tiny. On top of that, we shot in dangerous locations where we had little or no control or security.

Most of my comedies were low on budgets - certainly by American standards.

It doesn't matter how big or small your film is: you still don't have enough money. You don't have enough time to shoot it.