Guy Ritchie

On Lock, Stock, we didn't know where the money for shooting the next day was coming from.

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'm not under too much of an illusion of how smart or un-smart I am because filmmaking ultimately is about teamwork.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

I've been watching 'Game of Thrones,' and I can't wait for 'Bored to Death' to come back, it's one of my faves.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.