CHRISTOPHER GUEST SAID: "Over 30 years ago, Fred & I were in a play at The Circle In The Square Theater called Little Murders. It was the first play I ever did. It was a Jules Feiffer play that Alan Arkin directed. I knew something was off when Fred actually started doing lines that weren't in the play. To me."
CHRISTOPHER GUEST ON THE FOLKSMEN: "We've opened for Spinal Tap. We've opened for ourselves on occasion. We actually once got booed off. So that people could actually see us in different outfits. Which was a very surreal moment." [Christopher Guest]
CHRISTOPHER GUEST SAID: "It also should be pointed out--by me, because I'm speaking, I guess--that as opposed to what you see in a club, where you go to see improv in a club--they're heading for a joke, basically. And the energy's a little more unreal. And that this is separate. Because it's more real-time behavior, perhaps. In the sense of: it's more realistic as far as energy goes."
CHRISTOPHER GUEST SAID: "In comedies, in films, you either have people that are not really in their roles or you have people that just aren't funny. And he was so deeply invested in these people, that even if the film itself wasn't good, I was just obsessed with this incredible talent and ability to disappear into these people."
CHRISTOPHER GUEST SAID: "Joel McCrea is the quintessential Everyman. And really was always a hero to me. He didn't really attain the stature maybe of Gary Cooper or Jimmy Stewart in the community. But to me he was always one of my favorites. And he just seemed absolutely to be telling the truth. And was never winking at anything."