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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.

Charlie Kaufman

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Charlie Kaufman
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: November 1
Film Director
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I'm interested in trying to explore what I think is the truth at a given time in my life, and part of the process of being honest is - in my mind - talking about the idea that you're watching a movie.
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I'm in my mind a lot. I live there.
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I want to create situations that give people something to think about.
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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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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 do throw out a lot of ideas, and I forget completely about them.
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You are what you love. Not what loves you.
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We're all one thing, like cells in a body. 'Cept we can't see the body. The way fish can't see the ocean. And so we envy each other. Hurt each other. Hate each other. How silly is that? A heart cell hating a lung cell.
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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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I think everything I do is based on my experience in the world in one way or another.
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Everything I've written is personal - it's the only way I know how to write.
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You and I share the same DNA. Is there anything more lonely than that?
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Everything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is true.
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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 think generally I'm kind of interested in subjective experience, what goes on inside someone's head, that being all they really know of the world.
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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 really don't have any solutions and I don't like movies that do.
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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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Do not simplify. Do not worry about failure. Failure is a badge of honour. It means you risked failure.
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I try to make things interesting and thought-provoking.
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