This Is Spinal Tap

“What they don’t tell you is that Spinal Tap, I know it’s supposed to be a spoof, but so much about being in a band is just completely true. Spinal Tap is supposed to be satire, but most of it you’re just like, "Yeah. Yeah, that’s real." This is the last of my film choices.”

“The first movie I am picking is This Is Spinal Tap. This is the movie that changed my life because a) it’s hilair, and super, super funny and great. But it was Christopher promoting this movie which put them in Rolling Stone magazine, where I saw his picture and said to my girlfriend Debra Hill, “I’m gonna marry him.” So these two movies, very much in the Criterion world, changed my life.”

“So this movie, Spinal Tap, is so seminal to me as far as… as far as a comedy without jokes. What I mean by comedy without jokes is every single line that is said, every single vision that is shown, is for comedic effect, but it is real. They are playing this as if it is the highest drama that has ever been made, and that is why it succeeds so heavily as a comedy. And I recommend it to anybody.”