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.

It's what I do for a living. Guest is married to the actress and author Jamie Lee Curtis. Nearly a decade before he was born his uncle David Guest a lecturer and Communist Party member was killed in the Spanish Civil War fighting in the International Brigades.

Guest also had a prominent role as the evil six-fingered Count Rugen in the film The Princess Bride. Guest is married to the actress and author Jamie Lee Curtis.