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Christopher Guest
Christopher Guest
British Director
Born: Feb 5, 1948
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It's dangerous talking about comedy; it gets to be very tedious and presumptuous. Christopher Guest
Dangerous Comedy Presumptuous About Talking Very Gets Tedious
I like to play music, and I like to be funny, so I just do both at the same time. Christopher Guest
Funny Music Time Both Like Same Just Same Time Play Play Music
I love being with my family and just being a regular person. Christopher Guest
Love Family Person Just Being Regular Regular Person
We heard about people who went backstage at dog shows with scissors and cut parts of a poodle's hair off to sabotage the dog. Christopher Guest
People Dog Hair Backstage About Sabotage Parts Scissors Heard Off Poodle Cut Who Shows
Nothing is cut while I'm shooting. I edit between nine months and a year, and usually have around 80 hours of footage I have to get down to an 82-minute movie. Christopher Guest
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I haven't had to do anything outside of show business my whole life. I've never been a waiter. I've only worked and gotten paid. It hasn't been a classic example of someone slogging through the business. Christopher Guest
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I started working in New York City as an actor and did many plays. I did regional theater, smaller theaters, children's theater. Christopher Guest
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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. Christopher Guest
School Had Sort Go Been Just Movies Then Film Actor Film School Plays
I've never seen a reality show. I don't watch television. Christopher Guest
Reality Seen Television Never Reality Show Show Watch
The fun part about doing our movies is that you're creating something using the talents of people rather than finding these pathetic people who are thrust into these situations. That, to me, is completely artless. Christopher Guest
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It's difficult to articulate how I know it's the right actor, but I do. It's instinct. Intuition. Christopher Guest
Difficult Intuition Instinct Know How Articulate Actor Right
I would make a huge distinction between theater improvisation and film improvisation. Christopher Guest
Distinction Would Between Make Huge Improvisation Theater Film
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. Christopher Guest
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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. Christopher Guest
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Mean doesn't last. Mean is over fast. Maybe this is the essence of everything, which is, to me, if there is no emotional center for what I'm doing, I have no interest in it at all. Christopher Guest
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I'm drawn as well to the lower echelons of things because it struck me a long time ago that it didn't really matter on what level people were working on anything; it was just as important to them as the people working on what's perceived as a higher level. Christopher Guest
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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. Christopher Guest
Culture People Fans Think Kids Brought Take Idea Since Blind Were Up Offense Might Rooting Team
I knew Dave Raymond, who was the original Phillie Phanatic. Christopher Guest
Dave Knew Raymond Who Original
I'm a fly fisherman. I make flies. They're imitations of insects at different stages in their development. Christopher Guest
Fly Insects Imitations Development Make Fisherman Different Stages Flies Different Stages
I guess there's something that's appealing to me about people that are aspirational-slash-deluded. Christopher Guest
Me People Guess About Something Appealing
I talk to people of different ages, and a guy who's 38 who says, 'I could've played Major League Baseball, but I had this knee injury...' Yeah, probably not. It's a big thing with men and sports, where they think they could have touched that thing. Christopher Guest
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When my daughter played volleyball in school, they were the Wildcats. Well, there are about a million Wildcats. Why don't you come up with another name? Christopher Guest
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I don't read about myself, and I don't read any magazine that has anything to do with movies or show business. Christopher Guest
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I don't make movies that make fun of anything. Christopher Guest
Make Anything Movies Fun
There are dozens and dozens of improv classes across the nation, but it really cannot be taught. Christopher Guest
Nation Classes Improv Taught Cannot Really Across Dozens
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