British - Director | February 5, 1948 -
I would overhear these conversations of people who show purebred dogs. They spoke about them as if they were their children.
Christopher Guest
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If you don't like the people, you're just doing a sketch. Which, in most cases, is comedy minus some emotional backbone.
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I was never in an improv group. But when I went to school, we would do it all day long with friends, not knowing what it was called.
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What interests me most are the emotional lives of the people. If I don't have that, it's not worth doing, frankly.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If you're showing people where it's smooth sailing, where is the joke? If you go back to any movie, even a conventional movie, with any comedians, they're either not terribly intelligent or they're not doing something well.
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I love documentaries. My problem is when the filmmaker becomes the star.
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I've never seen a reality show. I don't watch television.
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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.
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