118 Quotes by Christopher Guest

The most important thing about my life is this integrity, and you can't lie to yourself.

Music means a great deal to me.

It's infrequent that that happens - great performances and magical cinematography and great direction.

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

As an actor, I trust my ear.

Comedies don't get nominated for Oscars. It doesn't happen. So when we set out to do a movie, it's not what we're thinking about.

'This is Spinal Tap' was a film we felt really had to be done like that. It wouldn't have worked any other way. And it turned out to be the first time a fiction film had really been made in a documentary format. I continued to do that, obviously, because it's a fun way to work.

I started working in New York City as an actor and did many plays. I did regional theater, smaller theaters, children's theater.

To me, what I realized when we were doing 'Spinal Tap' - and the four of us wrote that - is, really, the core of that is the relationship with the two guys who grew up together and that strain when the girlfriend comes in. If that wasn't there, it's a very different movie. Then it's just bumbling guys stumbling along.