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I started working in New York City as an actor and did many plays. I did regional theater, smaller theaters, children's theater.
Christopher Guest
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Baron Haden-Guest
New York City
City Children New
Regional
Smaller
Theaters
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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.
Christopher Guest
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Baron Haden-Guest
Oscars
Comedies
Nominated
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I was never in an improv group. But when I went to school, we would do it all day long with friends, not knowing what it was called.
Christopher Guest
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Baron Haden-Guest
Not Knowing
All Day
Improv
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If you didn't know who I was, if I was to walk out on the street without people knowing who I am, you'd think I'm an accountant or a lawyer.
Christopher Guest
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Baron Haden-Guest
Accountant
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What I'm doing in the work I do, I prefer not to just have a series of jokes. It's nice when audiences can connect with the characters as well.
Christopher Guest
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Baron Haden-Guest
Connect
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We all know many people who have been through this reality, and how it changes them. This happens to be an area I know something about. It's a virus.
Christopher Guest
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Baron Haden-Guest
People
Reality
Viruses
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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?
Christopher Guest
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Baron Haden-Guest
Volleyball
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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.
Christopher Guest
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Baron Haden-Guest
Editing
Notes
Pads
Work Down Sit
Editor
Longhand
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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.
Christopher Guest
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Baron Haden-Guest
Blind
Fans
Offense
Brought
Rooting
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Nothing is cut while I'm shooting. I edit between nine months and a year, and usually have around 80 hours of footage I have to get down to an 82-minute movie.
Christopher Guest
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Baron Haden-Guest
Nine
Nine Months
Shooting
Edit
Footage
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I spent a lot of time in London when I was growing up and I've always picked up accents without even really meaning to. It used to get me into trouble as a child.
Christopher Guest
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Baron Haden-Guest
Accents
Children
Growing Up
London
Time Always Me
Time Me Always
Picked
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The early parodies that talk-show people did of rock n' roll in the '50s were terrible. They didn't know it, they didn't like it - and that's a lethal combination.
Christopher Guest
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Baron Haden-Guest
Combination
People Know Rock
Lethal
People Rock Know
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I get asked, 'Who would you really like to work with?' I'm already working with them. Smart, talented, funny people, good musicians, an extended family, good friends.
Christopher Guest
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Baron Haden-Guest
Extended Family
Funny People
Talented
Extended
Good Friends
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I spent more time in America, but I developed a very English sense of humour. I clicked into it deeply with Peter Sellers, who is still probably my favourite comedian.
Christopher Guest
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Baron Haden-Guest
America
Comedian
Favourite
Humour
Peter
Sellers
English
Clicked
Deeply
Developed
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I went to Bard College for a year. And then, even though I didn't think I should give my blood to the theater, I did go to N.Y.U., which is where I met Michael McKean.
Christopher Guest
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Baron Haden-Guest
Blood
Theater
Michael
Met
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You can't improvise without a skeletal structure; you can't just go in and start talking. This is a very misunderstood craft because no one else makes movies like this.
Christopher Guest
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Baron Haden-Guest
Structure
Craft
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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
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Baron Haden-Guest
Comedy
Passion
Music Movies Always
Apparently
Liked
Specific
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Folk musicians have a lot of the same self-importance, but they're way more cruel and jealous than rock musicians - I know this for a fact because I used to be a folk musician.
Christopher Guest
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Baron Haden-Guest
Jealous
Facts
Musician
Rock Musicians
Rocks
Self
Self-importance
Way Know More
Cruel
Folk
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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
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Baron Haden-Guest
Show Business
Work Business Movies
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Mean doesn't last. Mean is over fast. Maybe this is the essence of everything, which is, to me, if there is no emotional center for what I'm doing, I have no interest in it at all.
Christopher Guest
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Baron Haden-Guest
Essence
Me Doing Everything
Center
No Interest
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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.
Christopher Guest
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Baron Haden-Guest
Dry
Traits
Chief
Cleaner
Comedies
Notice
Observational
Studio
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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.
Christopher Guest
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Baron Haden-Guest
Comedy
Funny Guy
Hardy
Laurel
Straight Man
Teams
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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
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Baron Haden-Guest
Conventional
Patterns
Talking
Street
Hear
Overhear
Restaurant
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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.
Christopher Guest
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Baron Haden-Guest
Classic
Show Business
Waiter
Classic Example
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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
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Baron Haden-Guest
Bizarre
Clarinet
Nerdy
New York City
Mandolin
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My daughter recommended Chris O'Dowd to me after seeing him in 'Bridesmaids,' so I watched that and his sitcom, 'The IT Crowd.' When I was over in London, we met up, and I knew immediately he was the right person.
Christopher Guest
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Baron Haden-Guest
Bridesmaids
Right Person
Sitcom
Chris
Immediately
Recommended
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The fun part about doing our movies is that you're creating something using the talents of people rather than finding these pathetic people who are thrust into these situations. That, to me, is completely artless.
Christopher Guest
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Baron Haden-Guest
Creating
Pathetic
Thrust
Movies Me Fun
Talents
Finding
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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.
Christopher Guest
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Baron Haden-Guest
Earnest
Notion
Obsession
People
World
Appear
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In 'Spinal Tap,' there's the fake historical quality of 'Stonehenge.' It's something the musicians look at with a mystical reverence. In folk music, it's the seriousness with which these people approach their 'art.'
Christopher Guest
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Baron Haden-Guest
Fake
Folk Music
Mystical
Reverence
Seriousness
Spinal Tap
Art Music Look
Tap
Folk
Spinal
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'Waiting For Guffman' was different right away from 'Spinal Tap,' because we didn't show the interviewer. That person became invisible immediately. That created a different way of tuning it and ultimately editing it.
Christopher Guest
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Baron Haden-Guest
Invisible
Spinal Tap
Tuning
Interviewer
Tap
Immediately
Right Away
Spinal
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Some instinct has told me I need to live in a world that isn't consumed with reading about myself or anyone else or someone's opinion about something. I need to be clear of that. It's just healthier for me. I feel happier.
Christopher Guest
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Baron Haden-Guest
Consumed
Instinct
Myself World Me
Anyone Else
Healthier
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If you're showing people where it's smooth sailing, where is the joke? If you go back to any movie, even a conventional movie, with any comedians, they're either not terribly intelligent or they're not doing something well.
Christopher Guest
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Baron Haden-Guest
Conventional
Intelligent
Sailing
Comedians
Terribly
People Doing Back
Showing
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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. 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.
Christopher Guest
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Baron Haden-Guest
People
Real
Thinking
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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.
Christopher Guest
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Baron Haden-Guest
Improvisation
Work Good People
Broader
Theoretically
Virtually
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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.
Christopher Guest
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Baron Haden-Guest
Show Business
Subjective
Hoping
Tv Show
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I talk to people of different ages, and a guy who's 38 who says, 'I could've played Major League Baseball, but I had this knee injury...' Yeah, probably not. It's a big thing with men and sports, where they think they could have touched that thing.
Christopher Guest
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Baron Haden-Guest
Different Ages
Major League
Major League Baseball
Touched
Ages
Big Thing
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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
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Baron Haden-Guest
Concerts
Schizophrenic
Spinal Tap
Appear
Character Done People
Tap
Spinal
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I'm drawn as well to the lower echelons of things because it struck me a long time ago that it didn't really matter on what level people were working on anything; it was just as important to them as the people working on what's perceived as a higher level.
Christopher Guest
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Baron Haden-Guest
Higher Level
Long Time Ago
Time Me Long
Time Long Me
Drawn
Perceived
Struck
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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.
Christopher Guest
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Baron Haden-Guest
Truthful
Improvisational
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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.
Christopher Guest
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Baron Haden-Guest
Ensemble
Accident
Work Movies People
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Strangely enough, among my dad's things, I found the diary of an ancestor who was born in 1797 and became a ventriloquist in London. That was quite chilling. It described exactly how I was as a child but 150 years earlier - doing voices, pretending to be a ventriloquist.
Christopher Guest
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Baron Haden-Guest
Pretending
Ancestors
Chilling
Diary
Earlier
Strangely
Ventriloquist
Voices
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'This is Spinal Tap' was a film we felt really had to be done like that. It wouldn't have worked any other way. And it turned out to be the first time a fiction film had really been made in a documentary format. I continued to do that, obviously, because it's a fun way to work.
Christopher Guest
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Baron Haden-Guest
Format
Spinal Tap
Time Work Done
Any Other Way
Be The First
Tap
Documentary
Work Time Fun
Spinal
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In real life, people fumble their words. They repeat themselves and stare blankly off into space and don't listen properly to what other people are saying. I find that kind of speech fascinating but screenwriters never write dialogue like that because it doesn't look good on the page.
Christopher Guest
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Baron Haden-Guest
Space
Dialogue
Fascinating
Real
Real Life
Writing
Life Space Good
Life Good Space
Page
Properly
Repeat
Stare
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The main thing that's important to me is getting to do whatever project it is the way that I do what I do, and that's different. To go to an entity - whether it's a traditional film studio or some newer company, or HBO, Amazon or Netflix - they would have to know that I need to work the way I work.
Christopher Guest
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Baron Haden-Guest
Entity
Hbo
Work Me Important
Work Me Way
Main Thing
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They sell these golf aids that attach to your knee and your head and are supposed to keep your swing correct. It's futile beyond belief. I've never bought any, but I could watch those ads for 24 hours straight. People with straight faces saying this thing will take strokes off your game - that's my peculiar obsession.
Christopher Guest
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Baron Haden-Guest
Ads
Aids
Faces
Obsession
Peculiar
Strokes
Game People Will
Your Game People
Attach
Correct
Futile
Straight People
Swing
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In 'Waiting for Guffman,' the character I played, the Corky character, he's very serious about what he does, and it's not meant to be mean that this is a small town and these people aren't the most talented people. They're trying the best they can. So to be mean, that would be kind of horrifying in its superficiality.
Christopher Guest
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Baron Haden-Guest
Be Kind
Meant To Be
Small Town
Superficiality
Talented
Horrifying
Talented People
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To me, what I realized when we were doing 'Spinal Tap' - and the four of us wrote that - is, really, the core of that is the relationship with the two guys who grew up together and that strain when the girlfriend comes in. If that wasn't there, it's a very different movie. Then it's just bumbling guys stumbling along.
Christopher Guest
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Baron Haden-Guest
Spinal Tap
Strain
Stumbling
Relationship Together Me
Tap
Spinal
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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
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Baron Haden-Guest
Clarinet
Cool Music Me
Drums
Trumpet
Handed
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I don't think we've ever known what the hell's going on when we do Tap shows. It's possible the audience are effectively getting to see more of the movie when we play. You know, they know the songs, so anything we do onstage, whether we're meaning to or not, is an extension of the film. Other than that, I wouldn't understand what's going on.
Christopher Guest
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Baron Haden-Guest
Tap
Effectively
Extension
Onstage
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I would make a huge distinction between theater improvisation and film improvisation. 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. But in a movie, it has to be real, and the characters have to look entirely real because it's being done as a faux documentary, so there are even fewer actors that can do that on film.
Christopher Guest
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Baron Haden-Guest
Character
People
Real
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