Christopher Guest Quotes
With a documentary, you can cut away, you can do jump cuts, cut to a photograph at any point to bridge two scenes.
Quotes to Explore
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A woman going out with a younger man feels like the last taboo.
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I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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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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Life is sacred to me on all levels. Abortion does not compute with my philosophy.
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Fighting, I guess, was never the real reason I read comic books as a kid. The fighting was an important part, an integral part of it; I don't know I would've read it without it.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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I started at an agency called Intertalent. You copy scripts, you pick up people's dry cleaning, you take their dogs to the vet, you deliver packages, you do whatever they want you to do.
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'Bruce Lee' didn't work, and there were apprehensions about what the fans might say. People might have commented that Charan could have waited for some time before selecting me again. But that's what makes it a real achievement to me. People want to work with me because of the comfort level; nobody would work with you again otherwise.
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My character Saurabh Singhania is a rich, bad guy who is driven by revenge, so much that you feel like scratching his face or throwing stones at him. The intimate scenes in the trailer are creating quite a buzz... I wish they had shown more of the story instead of the sizzling scenes. The film is not about boldness or intimacy.
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Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
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This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.
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I am fully aware of the concept of political revolutions. After all, that is what we hoped might happen in the U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe, but what actually happened was capitalist restoration.
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If I win the gold medal, I will be set for the rest of my life. The medal itself doesn't give you anything, but it makes you a marketable item. You take it and see what you can do.
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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When I was a kid, I wanted desperately to be a jazz musician. I would practice the trumpet for hours, but when I got braces, that messed up my ability to play, so all of a sudden I had all this free time.
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You don't get second chances in the real world.
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My calling, as one imperfect human, is to celebrate and uphold life every time I get the chance.
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Fear controls you.
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One of the joys of teaching with the anthology is to watch the excitement grow as students, who may think the past dull and irrelevant, find how fresh and new and powerful are the kinds of writings that are hundreds of years old.
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We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction.
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You meet with a CEO or founder. You talk about sales, engineering, product management and give some ideas or suggestions. And the founder quickly understands that you really can help them both operationally and from a strategic standpoint.
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With a documentary, you can cut away, you can do jump cuts, cut to a photograph at any point to bridge two scenes.
