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

~Christopher Guest

Topics: Been Buying Fool Guitars Last Since Thinking You Yourself

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I'm fascinated by real-time behavior.

~Christopher Guest

Topics: Behavior Fascinated

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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.

~Christopher Guest

Topics: Conventional Conversation Different Hear Movie Overhear Patterns Restaurant Someone Street Talking Than Very Would You

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I started on the clarinet. I was going to a music school - my mother took me - and the guy said, 'What do you want to play?' I said the drums, and my mother said, 'No, you don't. You don't want to play the drums.' So I said, 'Maybe the trumpet would be cool.' And my mother said, 'I don't think so.' And then the clarinet was handed to me.

~Christopher Guest

Topics: Clarinet Cool Drums Going Guy Handed Maybe Me Mother Music Play Said School Started Then Think Took Trumpet Want Would You

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It couldn't have been more nerdy or bizarre, playing the clarinet. But I studied classical clarinet, went to the high school for music and art in New York City, and then found the guitar and the mandolin after it.

~Christopher Guest

Topics: After Art Been Bizarre City Clarinet Classical Found Guitar High High School More Music Nerdy New New York New York City Playing School Studied Then York

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When you've been a character in a movie - and this has happened when we've done concerts as Spinal Tap or as The Folksmen - people see you as characters walking out of a movie. And you appear in public, then, to play, it's a very schizophrenic thing.

~Christopher Guest

Topics: Appear Been Character Characters Concerts Done Happened Movie Out People Play Public Schizophrenic See Spinal Tap Then Thing Very Walking You

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I don't read anything about my movies before or after I do films, or any part of show business. I think that keeps me in a kind of place where I can do the work that I need to do.

~Christopher Guest

Topics: About After Any Anything Before Business Films Keeps Kind Me Movies Need Part Place Read Show Show Business Think Where Work I Think I Can

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I wouldn't say I'm a connoisseur of film. I like certain films, but I don't pretend to be a connoisseur of films, no.

~Christopher Guest

Topics: Certain Connoisseur Film Films Like Pretend Say

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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.

~Christopher Guest

Topics: Acting Always Apparently Comedy Doing Like Liked More Movies Music Need Passion Sense Specific Things Those You

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It's dangerous talking about comedy; it gets to be very tedious and presumptuous.

~Christopher Guest

Topics: About Comedy Dangerous Gets Presumptuous Talking Tedious Very

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Director

Born: February 5th, 1948

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