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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Once one concedes that a single world government is not necessary, then where does one logically stop at the permissibility of separate states? If Canada and the United States can be separate nations without being denounced as in a state of impermissible ‘anarchy’, why may not the South secede from the United States? New York State from the Union? New York City from the state? Why may not Manhattan secede? Each neighbourhood? Each block? Each house? Each person?
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Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it.
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Stand-up comedians say that anyone in the audience can be funny, but people paid to see us because we're just a little bit funnier. In the same way, I think anybody can play music - in fact, I think everyone has music in them, but some of us can do it a little better.
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I think the International Space Station is providing a key bridge from us living on Earth to going somewhere into deep space.
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It is expensive to give plays subtitles, especially for a short run, so most new dramas rarely cross the transcontinental bridge.
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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.
