Christopher Guest Quotes
I don't know if I'd mastered that documentary format, but I wanted to move on from it.
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An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That's one of the little-known facts.
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The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.
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I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.
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Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
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How does one measure the success of a museum?
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One thing that the audience, and perhaps critics, aren't aware of is that, especially in a film like 'Moonlight,' you always shoot a lot more footage than makes the cut of the film.
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I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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I can not stay at the place when a stranger starts talking to me. I will try to cut the speech as quick as possible and move away. I had to break this inhibition before becoming an actor.
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We need to build opt-in society, outside the U.S., run by technology.
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Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.
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Sure, I have a lot of friends that are actors. Just because I guess I run into a lot of actors in my work.
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In effect, you cannot stop Iraq from growing nasty bugs in the basement. You can stop them from putting operational warheads on working missiles and launching them at their neighbors.
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Is it harder having kids and working? It definitely is, but the payoff is you get to go home to your kids, and it all balances out. And I know I'm a better mother when I'm engaged in something outside of the house.
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We are not at the same place we were in 1973. This country today is drifting, moving steadily towards the pro-life position because the data is with us.
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I didn't get any crazy sponsors. I don't have any extra sponsors since I got the belt.
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I want to work with my friends because Canadian genre publishing is a really small pool.
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How can you sing of amazing grace and all God's wonders without using your hands?
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This America has been the country of greed rather than the country of need.
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For me, what works well about 'Life in a Day' is that it's emotionally affecting without being manipulative. It really does make you think about the connectivity of the world, the similarities and differences. It shows the experiences we all go through: birth, childhood, falling in love, having kids, getting ill, dying.
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On our American tour bus, the bunks are a bit taller so that we don't bash our heads. On the English bus, we bash our heads every morning. It's not the best thing to do first thing when you wake up.
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In this great age of communication, there a lot of people you can't actually understand. I know everyone tweets, and twits and texts and all that, but actually we've all got voices, and it is awfully nice to hear them and if you can understand what people are saying.
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I don't know if I'd mastered that documentary format, but I wanted to move on from it.
