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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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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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Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.
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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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Do not simplify. Do not worry about failure. Failure is a badge of honour. It means you risked failure.
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I want to create situations that give people something to think about.
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I'm not into extreme sports or something. I just live a quiet life.
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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 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 feel like I want to keep moving toward idiosyncracy. Personal, personal, personal.
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When I'm writing a script, before I can write dialogue or anything, I have two or three hundred pages of notes, which takes me a year. So, it's not like what happens next. I've got things that I'm thinking about but I don't settle on them. And if I try to write dialogue before then, I can't. It's just garbage.
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I have a tendency to hire people who tend to be unattractive to the studios. Maybe this is a bad idea.
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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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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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Everything I've written is personal - it's the only way I know how to write.
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I actually think I'm probably more interested in structure than most people who write screenplays, because I think about it.
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I'm in my mind a lot. I live there.
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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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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 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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