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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
New York
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I'm old enough, by a long shot, to remember going to the library and spending days researching. If I was looking for a line from a poem or something else I needed, that would be the trip I would have to take.
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I often have a theme in mind when I'm starting. I know that I want everything to be in a world of, say, evolution, or guilt.
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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 really don't have any solutions and I don't like movies that do.
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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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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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We try to organize the world, which isn't organized the way our brains want to organize it. We tell stories about the people in our lives, we project ideas onto them. We project relationships with people, we make our lives into stories. I don't think we can avoid doing that.
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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 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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If I were doing somebody else's script or I adapted a book by Philip Roth, on set there could be a million different interpretations of the material and people could argue with me. Certainly on Synecdoche, New York we had discussions and arguments, but I felt like I had authority because I'm a writer.
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My time on the set is the least of my involvement. Most of my time is in pre-production and post-production.
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When you approach middle age, lots of stuff happens. Your body is aging, you're watching people around you get sick, you're watching people die, your mortality becomes very present at that point in your life.
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You and I share the same DNA. Is there anything more lonely than that?
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I'm trying to tell a story and do it truthfully.
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I feel like I want to keep moving toward idiosyncracy. Personal, personal, personal.
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I think if something resonates, even if it's surreal, it's because it is relatable and I think that that's a core issue for me.
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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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You're dealing with the body, and you're dealing with bodily functions. We romanticize everything about people in movies.
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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 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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