Christopher Guest Quotes

All these movies are observational comedies. I see somebody, maybe a dry cleaner, and notice how they are. Maybe I'll decide to turn a person with those traits into a studio chief.

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• I just want us to all have a good time and to party and enjoy this life, because it's too short. It's too short.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• Bruckner's Eighth is a colossus.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Eighth

• The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Friends
  • Relationship
  • Wife

• Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.

  

  W. Eugene Smith
  • Small
  • Best
  • Photography

• I am a big music nerd.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Music
  • Nerd

• A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.

  

  Edith Hamilton
  • People
  • Great
  • Real

• I always make a decision, even if it's the wrong one. I hate being confused.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • Hate
  • Decision
  • Confused

• I started dancing when I was about 15 or 16 in my high school drama club, and then I liked it so much that they offered dual enrollment classes. So my senior year, I ended up taking college dance courses while I was in high school because I had good grades.

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • Up
  • Good
  • School

• Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Friends
  • Like
  • Books

• Even my closest friend said I was finished, but I think I may be a little different from the others.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Different
  • May
  • Think

• It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Style
  • Old
  • Loss

• Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • People
  • Mean
  • Growth

• I have to go through auditions, and my surname has got me into rooms, but I'll never know if it gets me any jobs. There's a lot of sexism and objectification, and a lot of people put you down.

  

  Oona Chaplin
  • People
  • Me
  • Down

• I will never let money from anyone affect what I do.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Money
  • Never
  • Will

• A lot of times, for videogames, you get almost no time to prepare with a script. You've got a director that's going line for line, filling you in on what's happening, and some games are even less than that.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • Time
  • You
  • Director

• Social media give me the privilege of learning about more people than I could meet in my whole life. Taken together, the Internet reads like the grandest character-driven novel humanity has ever known. Not much plot, though.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • People
  • Life
  • Character

• … just as the limb gives assistance to the body, likewise the member of the community helps the community and reigns supreme.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Community

• As far as I'm concerned we are all God That's the difference If you really think another guy is God he doesn't lock you up Funny about that.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Up
  • God
  • Guy

• Death comes black and hard, rushing down on me from the future, with no possible chance of escape.

  

  David Gerrold
  • Future
  • Death
  • Black

• You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free.

  

  Paul Rand
  • Free
  • Reading
  • Understanding

• As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence.

  

  Zahi Hawass
  • Mind
  • Past
  • Ideas

• Art is only great if it's uncodifiable. If art isn't scaring you, if it's not making you upset, then I don't think it's actually doing anything.

  

  Dale Peck
  • Great
  • Anything
  • Making

• Sometimes I'd like everybody who is stuck, or lost, or vacant to stay that way and keep silent for as long as it takes, but that's the critic in me talking.

  

  David Toop
  • Long
  • Sometimes
  • Talking

• All these movies are observational comedies. I see somebody, maybe a dry cleaner, and notice how they are. Maybe I'll decide to turn a person with those traits into a studio chief.

  

  Christopher Guest