118 Quotes by Christopher Guest

I find it really appalling when people talk about comedy.

I read kind of serious books about fairly arcane subjects.

People ask me, 'What's your next film?' And I never know.

I'm a fly fisherman. I make flies. They're imitations of insects at different stages in their development.

I've been buying guitars since 1964, and you fool yourself into thinking it's the last one.

There isn't much improvisation in film - there's virtually none. The people that theoretically could be good at this in a theater situation don't necessarily do this in a film in a way that will work, because it's much broader on a stage.

I'm fascinated by real-time behavior.

The main thing that's important to me is getting to do whatever project it is the way that I do what I do, and that's different. To go to an entity - whether it's a traditional film studio or some newer company, or HBO, Amazon or Netflix - they would have to know that I need to work the way I work.

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.