Forbes Profile Spotlights Ricky Greenwood's Prolific Output

Forbes Profile Spotlights Ricky Greenwood's Prolific Output

LOS ANGELES — Forbes magazine has published a profile of reigning XBIZ Director of the Year Ricky Greenwood, highlighting his prolific directing portfolio.

Written by veteran sex industries reporter Susannah Breslin, the article makes the case for Greenwood being perhaps “the hardest-working director in porn.”

Breslin visited Greenwood on the set of “Project X,” an upcoming Digital Playground feature starring Cherie DeVille and Mick Blue.

“These days, Greenwood is one of the most in-demand directors in the adult business,” Breslin writes. “At 42, he has made, by his estimate, over 500 porn movies, among them ‘Grinders’ (a skateboarding movie), ‘Talk Derby to Me’ (a roller derby movie), and ‘Machine Gunner’ (a war movie). Originally from Montreal, Quebec, he is tall, bearded, heavily tattooed, and speaks with a Québécois accent. His favorite movies include ‘The Exorcist,’ ‘Point Break,’ and ‘High Fidelity.’ Among the directors he most admires is Michael Bay.”

His appreciation for the “Transformers” auteur, Greenwood tells Breslin, is due to the fact that Bay's commercial movies are “like a big cheeseburger.”

“I know when I’m making porn, I’m making a sort of entertainment,” he adds. “I go with that and play with it.”

Breslin also offers a series of vignettes depicting the current state of higher-budget studio production, emphasizing consent lists, production standards and how to shoot sex scenes.

“I like to let them do what they want to do,” Greenwood tells Breslin about his organic approach to the latter. “I barely direct them for sex because I feel I want to have a more natural sex scene. I want to be a fly on the wall watching them. I don’t want to give them tricky angles and positions. I want us to witness and not have them working. If you create that safety zone, they will forget the camera. You will get those nice moments and scenes."

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