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The truth of it is that people are not going to want to go to improvisational theater if it's not funny. You can succeed in doing all the things you're supposed to do - be truthful to scene - and if it's not funny, I'm telling you that no one's gonna care.
Quote by -Christopher Guest
In the kind of films that I do, there is an extremely limited number of people that can improvise. The reason the ensemble continues in the movies is because those are the people that can do that kind of work. It's not just an accident those people are in the film.
Quote by -Christopher Guest
Mean doesn't last. Mean is over fast. Maybe this is the essence of everything, which is, to me, if there is no emotional center for what I'm doing, I have no interest in it at all.
Quote by -Christopher Guest
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.
Quote by -Christopher Guest
I'm drawn as well to the lower echelons of things because it struck me a long time ago that it didn't really matter on what level people were working on anything; it was just as important to them as the people working on what's perceived as a higher level.
Quote by -Christopher Guest
I think fans are so brought up in a culture of rooting for a team since they were kids, ostensibly, and are blind to this idea that people might take offense.
Quote by -Christopher Guest
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.
Quote by -Christopher Guest
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.
Quote by -Christopher Guest
I'm a fly fisherman. I make flies. They're imitations of insects at different stages in their development.
Quote by -Christopher Guest
I guess there's something that's appealing to me about people that are aspirational-slash-deluded.
Quote by -Christopher Guest
I talk to people of different ages, and a guy who's 38 who says, 'I could've played Major League Baseball, but I had this knee injury...' Yeah, probably not. It's a big thing with men and sports, where they think they could have touched that thing.
Quote by -Christopher Guest
There's something about that idea of looking up and hoping, and thinking, 'I'm good.' Some things, like show business, are absolutely subjective. People look at a TV show and think, 'I could do that.' And maybe they could do that. But they're not.
Quote by -Christopher Guest
When my daughter played volleyball in school, they were the Wildcats. Well, there are about a million Wildcats. Why don't you come up with another name?
Quote by -Christopher Guest
I don't know anyone who's ever taken a bus. It's a mysterious form of transportation.
Quote by -Christopher Guest
If you didn't know who I was, if I was to walk out on the street without people knowing who I am, you'd think I'm an accountant or a lawyer.
Quote by -Christopher Guest
I don't read about myself, and I don't read any magazine that has anything to do with movies or show business.
Quote by -Christopher Guest
Some instinct has told me I need to live in a world that isn't consumed with reading about myself or anyone else or someone's opinion about something. I need to be clear of that. It's just healthier for me. I feel happier.
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The most important thing about my life is this integrity, and you can't lie to yourself.
Quote by -Christopher Guest
'Waiting For Guffman' was different right away from 'Spinal Tap,' because we didn't show the interviewer. That person became invisible immediately. That created a different way of tuning it and ultimately editing it.
Quote by -Christopher Guest
With a documentary, you can cut away, you can do jump cuts, cut to a photograph at any point to bridge two scenes.
Quote by -Christopher Guest
What I'm doing in the work I do, I prefer not to just have a series of jokes. It's nice when audiences can connect with the characters as well.
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There are dozens and dozens of improv classes across the nation, but it really cannot be taught.
Quote by -Christopher Guest
For some reason, I have always been interested in the stories of people who are exiled and who are deprived of rights. My main motive to make a film is to keep the society in mind and the hospitality adhered.
Quote by -Claire Denis
I am not at all interested in theories about cinema. I am only interested in images and people and sound. I am really a very simple person.
Quote by -Claire Denis
Marguerite Duras was a very good friend of mine and an intellectual hero. She was also a sort of mother figure. Of course she was an influence.
Quote by -Claire Denis
I always thought of Djibouti as a place where human history hasn't really begun yet - or perhaps it's already over. There's something in the landscape that's stronger than human civilisation. There's no agriculture, for example, and there are live volcanoes.
Quote by -Claire Denis
I always thought Vincent Lindon had a sexy body, a body you can trust, a solid body you can lean on.
Quote by -Claire Denis
I don't know - music in film, for me, is not another part of a soundtrack; it is something that also helps to approach a character, to foresee the type of image - you see what I mean - it's like a part of the process.
Quote by -Claire Denis
Making pizza is a great job. All that kneading the dough - everything to do with cooking is wonderful, sensual.
Quote by -Claire Denis
When you have countries that have a lot of minerals and diamonds and oil and are in business with companies from all over the world - but these companies don't share, really, their profits - this is called post-post-colonial.
Quote by -Claire Denis
When making a film, if I feel nothing in my body, I can't work. I have to touch. I have to feel. I never stop touching.
Quote by -Claire Denis
You can spend your whole life in France without ever thinking about the Legion.
Quote by -Claire Denis
What I like is the idea of a group, even if it's just two people - the idea of solitude within a group.
Quote by -Claire Denis
I have very strong relationships with my actors when I'm shooting. When you love an actor's work, you always feel you have to go further, and you make several films together. One film just gives you time to get acquainted.
Quote by -Claire Denis
In Kurosawa's films, the tragedy is that this strong man was crushed by corruption or mistrust at the end.
Quote by -Claire Denis
The camera is not your eye, and it's not the eye of the audience. I don't think it's my eye, either. It belongs to the film.
Quote by -Claire Denis