Christopher Guest Quotes
The main thing that's important to me is getting to do whatever project it is the way that I do what I do, and that's different. To go to an entity - whether it's a traditional film studio or some newer company, or HBO, Amazon or Netflix - they would have to know that I need to work the way I work.
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I'm very self-critical.
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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At least for me, any time I've been in hotbeds of creativity, I got excited about something that wasn't coming from me.
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I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.
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Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.
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I've found that the most engaging and satisfying author events I've done are with other people, where the conversation is spontaneous. I think that is by far the better way to introduce and promote a book.
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The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.
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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
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I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.
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Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
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I love all animals. I just happen to prefer cats. They're really chill, and they're loving yet not loving. I relate to them, in a way.
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I am not going to do a film based on a bad scenario just to make a big Hollywood film or work with Hollywood stars.
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I'm one of those people who, as long as I am still healthy and my thoughts are more or less clear, I don't think I can retire entirely.
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The hours came to minutes, the minutes to seconds. And now each second was as long as all the time before.
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Presidential primary debates are an important part of our political process. But the media has wrested complete control from the parties and candidates over everything, including the number, the format, the qualifications, and the moderators. And they've become a circus.
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Governments can err, presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that Divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted on different scales. Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.
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So it's not so much that I set out to do something different, it's just that the songs themselves require their own individual voice and attention.
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The main thing that's important to me is getting to do whatever project it is the way that I do what I do, and that's different. To go to an entity - whether it's a traditional film studio or some newer company, or HBO, Amazon or Netflix - they would have to know that I need to work the way I work.
