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You are what you love. Not what loves you.

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
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I studied acting at Boston University. I was in the theater department there. Somewhere in there I decided that wasn't what I was going to do and I went to the B.F.A. film program at N.Y.U.
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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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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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Story ideas, but it's also musing on stuff that I'm thinking about. This leads me to this and this leads me to this. They're kind of random and haphazard. Often I can't find anything. Somehow, by doing that, even though I don't necessarily refer to them in a specific way, I have some sort of architecture in my head.
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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 background in theater, so I have experience with actors. I like actors - I used to be one.
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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 really don't have any solutions and I don't like movies that do.
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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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People ask me all the time, What are your influences? Are you trying to do Beckett? It's like, No, I'm trying to do me. Whatever that is. I don't know what that is, but that's the basis. I'm trying to be true and I'm trying to be honest.
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I try to present something that is true so I don't further destroy the world with my contribution to it.
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Clementine: This is it, Joel. It's going to be gone soon. Joel: I know. Clementine: What do we do? Joel: Enjoy it.
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I graduated from college in 1980.
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Everything I've written is personal - it's the only way I know how to write.
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I want to do my own thing, and I'm trying to get closer to realizing that as a filmmaker.
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Do not simplify. Do not worry about failure. Failure is a badge of honour. It means you risked failure.
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I'm Jewish, and my family is Jewish. I was very interested in Woody Allen when I was growing up, but I don't think of myself as a Jewish writer. I'm more from suburbia, American suburbia. I'm more from the '70s than I am from Judaism.
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If you create something that is asking for people to respond as they're going to respond, you have to allow them to respond as they're going to respond. Some of the people are going to be uninterested and some people are going to be mad for some reason, which is their business. That's just the way the world is.
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I think that people create the world that they live in. Your existence is very subjective, and you tell stories and organize the world outside of you into these stories to help you understand it.
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