“My passion is more specific, in the sense that I've always liked doing...” — Christopher Guest Quote

My passion is more specific, in the sense that I've always liked doing comedy. I've always liked doing music. I like acting. And apparently, you need those things in movies.

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.

I am interested in the notion that people can become so obsessed by their world that they lose sense and awareness of how they appear to other people. They're so earnest about it. But that's true of so many things.

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

I've heard New York actors say Chicago actors intimidate them because apparently we're the real nitty-gritty actors who're in a town where being onstage doesn't necessarily get you anything except your craft.

The most frequent complaint is that it's hard. True. it's a hard game to win Also, many people ask me how to use the secret debugging commands, apparently under the impression that I'll tell them.

Maintaining marriage seems to be tougher than fatherhood: apparently it's the most difficult thing in the world.

Apparently it'll all settle down and they'll forget about it soon.