Christopher Guest Quotes
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If you're deluded, you live in a place where there isn't everyone else's reality.
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When you hear someone talking in a restaurant or overhear someone talking on the street, there are very different patterns of conversation than you would hear in a conventional movie.
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I watch mostly documentaries and things that aren't remotely funny.
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I like to play music, and I like to be funny, so I just do both at the same time.
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'The Office' is an amazing show. So is 'Extras.'
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I think fans are so brought up in a culture of rooting for a team since they were kids, ostensibly, and are blind to this idea that people might take offense.
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Most films, when you finish as an actor, you just go home.
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I guess there's something that's appealing to me about people that are aspirational-slash-deluded.
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People who take themselves too seriously, who can't see anything else, are usually funny.
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There are dozens and dozens of improv classes across the nation, but it really cannot be taught.
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The movies have a way of seeping out there over time. We don't put them in 2,000 theaters. It wouldn't work that way.
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I didn't go to film school. I had been an actor in movies, I had been in plays, and then I just sort of jumped into it.
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There isn't much improvisation in film - there's virtually none. The people that theoretically could be good at this in a theater situation don't necessarily do this in a film in a way that will work, because it's much broader on a stage.
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When I look back on what I've done, I think I'm drawn to obsession, perhaps.
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I spent more time in America, but I developed a very English sense of humour. I clicked into it deeply with Peter Sellers, who is still probably my favourite comedian.
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I'm a fly fisherman. I make flies. They're imitations of insects at different stages in their development.
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Comedy is like music. You have to know the key and you have to find players with good chops.
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The minute the money is more, you lose your control, so then there's no point.
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It's dangerous talking about comedy; it gets to be very tedious and presumptuous.
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In the kind of films that I do, there is an extremely limited number of people that can improvise. The reason the ensemble continues in the movies is because those are the people that can do that kind of work. It's not just an accident those people are in the film.
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Peter Sellers is my great comedy hero.
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What interests me most are the emotional lives of the people. If I don't have that, it's not worth doing, frankly.
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Some instinct has told me I need to live in a world that isn't consumed with reading about myself or anyone else or someone's opinion about something. I need to be clear of that. It's just healthier for me. I feel happier.
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I'm not really premeditative in any way at all. I come up with an idea, hopefully for a film, and then I'm lucky enough to do the film.