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. ”

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. ”

There isn't much improvisation in film - there's virtually none. The people that theoretically could be good at this in a theater situation don't necessarily do this in a film in a way that will work, because it's much broader on a stage. ”

The reason I work with the same people, it's not just an accident. ”

The movies have a way of seeping out there over time. We don't put them in 2,000 theaters. It wouldn't work that way. ”