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" 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. "

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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. "

Christopher Guest

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Film

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

" 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. "

" 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

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Funny

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" What's interesting about Laurel and Hardy is that in most comedy teams, there's a straight man, and then there's the funny guy. And with Laurel and Hardy, they're both the funny guy. "

" 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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Peter Sellers is my great comedy hero. "

" You know when you're young, you have this unbelievable stupidity and arrogance and ignorance all mixed in? "

" I get asked, 'Who would you really like to work with?' I'm already working with them. Smart, talented, funny people, good musicians, an extended family, good friends. "

" Strangely enough, among my dad's things, I found the diary of an ancestor who was born in 1797 and became a ventriloquist in London. That was quite chilling. It described exactly how I was as a child but 150 years earlier - doing voices, pretending to be a ventriloquist. "

" I painted sets before I ever performed. "

" You can pick almost any field, and there's going to be weird people. "

" 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.' "

" 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

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Sense

" I've been fortunate. I get to write films. I get to write music in films. I get to play arenas wearing a wig. "

" 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. "

" I myself delve into very arcane things. "

" They sell these golf aids that attach to your knee and your head and are supposed to keep your swing correct. It's futile beyond belief. I've never bought any, but I could watch those ads for 24 hours straight. People with straight faces saying this thing will take strokes off your game - that's my peculiar obsession. "