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Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.

Charlie Kaufman

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Charlie Kaufman
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: November 1
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
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New York City
New York
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Necessarily
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Seriously, I don't consider myself a writer. I don't think I have writing talent. But I will continue to do it.
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I try when I'm writing to leave enough space for people to have their own interpretation, and not to direct it toward one conclusion. Then the audience would not be reacting, because they are being preached to or lectured at. I don't have that much to say that I think people should listen to me.
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I will be dying and so will you, and so will everyone here. That's what I want to explore. We're all hurtling towards death, yet here we are for the moment, alive. Each of us knowing we're going to die, each of us secretly believing we won't.
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The way I work is not the way that you work, and the whole point of any creative act is that. What I have to offer is me, what you have to offer is you, and if you offer yourself with authenticity and generosity I will be moved.
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I have a personality that tends to be somewhat compulsive, and I do tend to think in a circular way. I dwell on the same things over and over and I try to figure out different ways of looking at the same issue.
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I'm not into extreme sports or something. I just live a quiet life.
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Before you start production, you have characters you have created without actors in mind, then all of a sudden you've got actors. They bring an enormous amount in creating these characters, and creating the dynamics between the characters that you've written.
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I think I've had pretty good experiences for the most part with the people who have directed my screenplays.
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I do have, at different times, a certain kind of self-consciousness in the world, an insecurity.
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The only honest and generous thing for me to do is to give people myself. That's all I've got as an artist, so I want to do that in an unflinching way.
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I think if I've worked anything through with screenwriting it's that I'm not going to be able to work anything through.
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I do throw out a lot of ideas, and I forget completely about them.
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There are things that aren't represented in movies that are a big part of everyone's life. This is a movie about health and about the body.
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I can talk endlessly about characters, or why someone did this or that, and what that dynamic and interaction is. I really love it, and I think that actors really respond positively to the fact that I like to talk about that stuff, because I'm not sure that all directors do.
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You're dealing with the body, and you're dealing with bodily functions. We romanticize everything about people in movies.
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