Christopher Guest Quotes

• In real life, people fumble their words. They repeat themselves and stare blankly off into space and don't listen properly to what other people are saying. I find that kind of speech fascinating but screenwriters never write dialogue like that because it doesn't look good on the page.

  Christopher Guest

  Real, Writing, Space

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• You know it's important to have a Jeep in Los Angeles. That front wheel drive is crucial when it starts to snow on Rodeo Drive.

  Christopher Guest

  Snow, Important, Jeeps

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• I am interested in the notion that people can become so obsessed by their world that they lose sense and awareness of how they appear to other people. They're so earnest about it. But that's true of so many things.

  Christopher Guest

  People, World, Obsession

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm married to the person I fell in love with.

  Christopher Guest

  Married, Persons

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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.

  Christopher Guest

  Way, Theater

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You can't really dust for vomit.

  Christopher Guest

  Dust, Spinal Tap, Stonehenge

  "This Is Spinal Tap". www.imdb.com. 1984.

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• Comedy is like music. You have to know the key and you have to find players with good chops.

  Christopher Guest

  Player, Keys, Comedy

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People want me to be funny all the time. They think I'm being funny no matter what I say or do and that's not the case. I rarely joke unless I'm in front of a camera. It's not what I am in real life. It's what I do for a living.

  Christopher Guest

  Real, Thinking, People

  "Featured Filmmaker: Christopher Guest" by Ken P., www.ign.com. May 12, 2003.

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• I would make a huge distinction between theater improvisation and film improvisation. 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. But in a movie, it has to be real, and the characters have to look entirely real because it's being done as a faux documentary, so there are even fewer actors that can do that on film.

  Christopher Guest

  Real, Character, People

  Source: film.avclub.com

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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.

  Christopher Guest

  America, Comedian, Favourite

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I spent a lot of time in London when I was growing up and I've always picked up accents without even really meaning to. It used to get me into trouble as a child.

  Christopher Guest

  Children, Growing Up, London

  "Nowt so queer as folk" by Richard Grant, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2004.

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• Folk musicians have a lot of the same self-importance, but they're way more cruel and jealous than rock musicians - I know this for a fact because I used to be a folk musician.

  Christopher Guest

  Jealous, Rocks, Self

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• I painted sets before I ever performed.

  Christopher Guest

  Interview with Scott Dikkers, www.avclub.com. February 26, 1997.

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• We all know many people who have been through this reality, and how it changes them. This happens to be an area I know something about. It's a virus.

  Christopher Guest

  Reality, People, Viruses

  "Gervais to star in 'exquisitely bad movie'" by Charlotte Higgins, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2005.

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