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.
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Bruckner's Eighth is a colossus.
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The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
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Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
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I am a big music nerd.
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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.
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I always make a decision, even if it's the wrong one. I hate being confused.
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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.
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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Even my closest friend said I was finished, but I think I may be a little different from the others.
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It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.
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I believe that this idea of story or myth or this thing that Joseph Campbell writes about is sort of an inter-connective spiritual force - like The Force in 'Star Wars' - where it doesn't matter where you were raised, or what your background is, there are certain elements of story that totally appeal to you.
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Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.
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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.
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I will never let money from anyone affect what I do.
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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.
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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.
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… just as the limb gives assistance to the body, likewise the member of the community helps the community and reigns supreme.
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There are certain filmmakers I'd like to work with that I don't think would take a risk with me, because I could be distracting in their film. It'll take a couple films to prove to them that it's worth the risk.
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If there’s one reason we have done better than of our peers in the Internet space over the last six years, it is because we have focused like a laser on customer experience.
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Once your computer is pretending to be a neural net, you get it to be able to do a particular task by just showing it a whole lot of examples.
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What I need more in my culture and in my life right now is hope, and so I tend to write to that. I'll always end up bending more toward optimism.
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My biggest worry is that no one seems to notice that we are not going to stop the technical progress that is going to continue to displace people through automation.
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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.
