Christopher Guest

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

I rarely joke unless I'm in front of a camera. It's not what I am in real life. It's what I do for a living. ”

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. ”

I haven't had to do anything outside of show business my whole life. I've never been a waiter. I've only worked and gotten paid. It hasn't been a classic example of someone slogging through the business. ”

I don't read about myself, and I don't read any magazine that has anything to do with movies or show business. ”

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. ”

If you don't like the people, you're just doing a sketch. Which, in most cases, is comedy minus some emotional backbone. ”

People want me to be funny all the time. They think I'm being funny no matter what I say or do and that's not the case. ”

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. ”

I find it really appalling when people talk about comedy. ”