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Everything I've written is personal - it's the only way I know how to write.
Charlie Kaufman
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Charlie Kaufman
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: November 1
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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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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'm in my mind a lot. I live there.
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The world needs you. It doesn't need you at a party having read a book about how to appear smart at parties - these books exist, and they're tempting - but resist falling into that trap. The world needs you at the party starting real conversations, saying, 'I don't know,' and being kind.
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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 try to make things interesting and thought-provoking.
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I really don't have any solutions and I don't like movies that do.
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I'm trying to tell a story and do it truthfully.
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I don't write genre stuff in any form. I'm not interested in it. I always try to do the opposite of that.
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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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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 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'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 not a celebrity. I'm intentionally and defiantly not a celebrity. I don't have any interest in it. I don't have any talent for it. I keep my personal life out of my public life as cleanly as I can.
Charlie Kaufman
As a writer, or as a filmmaker, you have to present yourself, and part of what yourself is is what you're interested in, or what you think is funny, or what you think is sad, or what you think is horrible.
Charlie Kaufman
I think everything I do is based on my experience in the world in one way or another.
Charlie Kaufman
Clementine: This is it, Joel. It's going to be gone soon. Joel: I know. Clementine: What do we do? Joel: Enjoy it.
Charlie Kaufman
I do throw out a lot of ideas, and I forget completely about them.
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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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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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