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Christopher Guest Quotes

I don't do any editing while we're making the movie. I sit down and watch it all with my editor, we make longhand notes on pads, and then we begin our work.

Christopher Guest

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: british
Birth: February 5, 1948

Topics

Work Down Editing Begin Watch Notes

WordPress, it's a complex tool; it's like the back of a digital SLR... but that doesn't work on a phone.

Matt Mullenweg

Work Back Phone Digital Complex

I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.

Michael J. Fox

Ambition Growing Up Hockey Acting Up

There were times in 'Adaptation' during the editing where I really thought, 'Okay, well, this was a noble failure. I tried to do something good, but this is not going to work.'

Spike Jonze

Work Failure Good Thought Okay Well

Setting people to spy on one another is not the way to protect freedom.

Tommy Douglas

Freedom People Way Protect Spy

I think that's what happens when you get scared, and you're rushing, and you don't have time. Rather than cut things out and take a chance, and build things up you think are working, you cut everything down a little bit, and everything sort of suffers.

Tom Noonan

Time Chance Think You Down Build

It depends who the director is you know, I mean Ken Loach for instance. I've done up to 32 takes with him.

Robert Carlyle

You Know Done Mean Director Him

Nudity... I have to say I will never do it again.

Moira Kelly

Say Will Never Again

The motivations I had for being successful were somewhat dysfunctional.

Molly Bloom

Successful Dysfunctional Being Were

I loved growing up in Washington, but I have been a diehard, 100 percent 49ers fan since I was 11.

Michael Mina

Growing Up Loved Growing Washington

We are all busy. It's easy to find excuses for not reaching out to others, but I imagine they will sound as hollow to our Heavenly Father as the elementary school boy who gave his teacher a note asking that he be excused from school March 30th through the 34th.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Father Teacher School Busy Excuses

It kills me when I see some metal band trying to pass themselves off as an 'alternative band.'

Dimebag Darrell

Me Trying Band See I See Metal

I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his powerless subjects. That's different from prescribing a way in which a writer should write.

Chinua Achebe

Think Someone Artist Way Write