Christopher Guest

I went to Bard College for a year. And then, even though I didn't think I should give my blood to the…

— Christopher Guest

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.…

— 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.…

— Christopher Guest

Folk musicians have a lot of the same self-importance, but they're way more cruel and jealous than rock musicians - I know…

— Christopher Guest

I'm not really premeditative in any way at all. I come up with an idea, hopefully for a film, and then I'm…

— Christopher Guest

If you're showing people where it's smooth sailing, where is the joke? If you go back to any movie, even a conventional…

— Christopher Guest

It couldn't have been more nerdy or bizarre, playing the clarinet. But I studied classical clarinet, went to the high school for…

— Christopher Guest

We heard about people who went backstage at dog shows with scissors and cut parts of a poodle's hair off to sabotage…

— 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…

— Christopher Guest

What interests me most are the emotional lives of the people. If I don't have that, it's not worth doing, frankly.

— Christopher Guest

'Waiting For Guffman' was different right away from 'Spinal Tap,' because we didn't show the interviewer. That person became invisible immediately. That…

— Christopher Guest

All these movies are observational comedies. I see somebody, maybe a dry cleaner, and notice how they are. Maybe I'll decide to…

— Christopher Guest

My daughter recommended Chris O'Dowd to me after seeing him in 'Bridesmaids,' so I watched that and his sitcom, 'The IT Crowd.'…

— 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…

— Christopher Guest

When my daughter played volleyball in school, they were the Wildcats. Well, there are about a million Wildcats. Why don't you come…

— 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,…

— Christopher Guest

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

The fun part about doing our movies is that you're creating something using the talents of people rather than finding these pathetic…

— Christopher Guest

When you hear someone talking in a restaurant or overhear someone talking on the street, there are very different patterns of conversation…

— 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…

— Christopher Guest

I would overhear these conversations of people who show purebred dogs. They spoke about them as if they were their children.

— 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…

— Christopher Guest

I don't do any editing while we're making the movie. I sit down and watch it all with my editor, we make…

— Christopher Guest

I was never in an improv group. But when I went to school, we would do it all day long with friends,…

— Christopher Guest

What I'm doing in the work I do, I prefer not to just have a series of jokes. It's nice when audiences…

— Christopher Guest

I think fans are so brought up in a culture of rooting for a team since they were kids, ostensibly, and are…

— Christopher Guest