Christopher Guest

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

I watch mostly documentaries and things that aren't remotely funny. ”

All these movies are observational comedies. I see somebody, maybe a dry cleaner, and notice how they are. Maybe I'll decide to turn a person with those traits into a studio chief. ”

People who take themselves too seriously, who can't see anything else, are usually funny. ”

Peter Sellers is my great comedy hero. ”

What's interesting about Laurel and Hardy is that in most comedy teams, there's a straight man, and then there's the funny guy. And with Laurel and Hardy, they're both the funny guy. ”

Comedy is like music. You have to know the key and you have to find players with good chops. ”

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? ”

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

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. ”