British - Director | February 5, 1948 -
The reason I work with the same people, it's not just an accident.
Christopher Guest
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Ninety-nine percent of television shows, I've never seen.
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I watch mostly documentaries and things that aren't remotely funny.
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I read kind of serious books about fairly arcane subjects.
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I went to Bard College for a year. And then, even though I didn't think I should give my blood to the theater, I did go to N.Y.U., which is where I met Michael McKean.
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People ask me, 'What's your next film?' And I never know.
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I've been buying guitars since 1964, and you fool yourself into thinking it's the last one.
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I'm fascinated by real-time behavior.
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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.
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I've been fortunate. I get to write films. I get to write music in films. I get to play arenas wearing a wig.
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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.
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It couldn't have been more nerdy or bizarre, playing the clarinet. But I studied classical clarinet, went to the high school for music and art in New York City, and then found the guitar and the mandolin after it.
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