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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.

I guess there's something that's appealing to me about people that are aspirational-slash-deluded.

Christopher Guest

I've been buying guitars since 1964, and you fool yourself into thinking it's the last one.

Christopher Guest

I started on the clarinet. I was going to a music school - my mother took me - and the guy said, 'What do you want to play?' I said the drums, and my mother said, 'No, you don't. You don't want to play the drums.' So I said, 'Maybe the trumpet would be cool.' And my mother said, 'I don't think so.' And then the clarinet was handed to me.

Christopher Guest

People who take themselves too seriously, who can't see anything else, are usually funny.

Christopher Guest

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

I wouldn't say I'm a connoisseur of film. I like certain films, but I don't pretend to be a connoisseur of films, no.

Christopher Guest

In 'Waiting for Guffman,' the character I played, the Corky character, he's very serious about what he does, and it's not meant to be mean that this is a small town and these people aren't the most talented people. They're trying the best they can. So to be mean, that would be kind of horrifying in its superficiality.

Christopher Guest

With a documentary, you can cut away, you can do jump cuts, cut to a photograph at any point to bridge two scenes.

Christopher Guest

There's something about that idea of looking up and hoping, and thinking, 'I'm good.' Some things, like show business, are absolutely subjective. People look at a TV show and think, 'I could do that.' And maybe they could do that. But they're not.

Christopher Guest

You can't improvise without a skeletal structure; you can't just go in and start talking. This is a very misunderstood craft because no one else makes movies like this.

Christopher Guest

I like to play music, and I like to be funny, so I just do both at the same time.

Christopher Guest

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

I find it really appalling when people talk about comedy.

Christopher Guest

If you didn't know who I was, if I was to walk out on the street without people knowing who I am, you'd think I'm an accountant or a lawyer.

Christopher Guest

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

If you're deluded, you live in a place where there isn't everyone else's reality.

Christopher Guest

I don't think we've ever known what the hell's going on when we do Tap shows. It's possible the audience are effectively getting to see more of the movie when we play. You know, they know the songs, so anything we do onstage, whether we're meaning to or not, is an extension of the film. Other than that, I wouldn't understand what's going on.

Christopher Guest

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

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

My passion is more specific, in the sense that I've always liked doing comedy. I've always liked doing music. I like acting. And apparently, you need those things in movies.

Christopher Guest

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.

Christopher Guest

I don't make movies that make fun of anything.

Christopher Guest

It's difficult to articulate how I know it's the right actor, but I do. It's instinct. Intuition.

Christopher Guest

Many times I'll improvise it, which isn't done a lot in movies or commercials. But a lot of my commercials are improvised.

Christopher Guest

Comedies don't get nominated for Oscars. It doesn't happen. So when we set out to do a movie, it's not what we're thinking about.

Christopher Guest

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

If you don't like the people, you're just doing a sketch. Which, in most cases, is comedy minus some emotional backbone.

Christopher Guest

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

There are dozens and dozens of improv classes across the nation, but it really cannot be taught.

Christopher Guest

Peter Sellers is my great comedy hero.

Christopher Guest

It's infrequent that that happens - great performances and magical cinematography and great direction.

Christopher Guest

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.

Christopher Guest

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

I love documentaries. My problem is when the filmmaker becomes the star.

Christopher Guest

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.

Christopher Guest

In 'Spinal Tap,' there's the fake historical quality of 'Stonehenge.' It's something the musicians look at with a mystical reverence. In folk music, it's the seriousness with which these people approach their 'art.'

Christopher Guest