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I graduated from college in 1980.

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Charlie Kaufman
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: November 1
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Graduated
College

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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 you just assume that your memory is just sort of a video playback of your experience, but it's nothing like that at all. It's a complete refabrication of an event and a lot of it is made up, because you're filling in spaces.
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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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The way I write is very much without kind of a goal. I have something I'm interested in and then I decide I'm going to explore it. I don't know where the characters are going to go, I don't know what the movie is going to do or what the screenplay is going to do. For me, that's the way to keep it alive.
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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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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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So when I write characters and situations and relationships, I try to sort of utilize what I know about the world, limited as it is, and what I hear from my friends and see with my relatives.
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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'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'm not into extreme sports or something. I just live a quiet life.
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Sand is overrated. It's just tiny little rocks.
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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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And so not only do you have to make that work, you can't really start putting the thing together in any form because some of the shots are very short and obviously many of them take so long, you're waiting months and months and months before you can see if it's going to be working emotionally.
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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 do like escapism. I like going to the movies on a Friday night and seeing something fun.
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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 think everything I do is based on my experience in the world in one way or another.
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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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I'm trying to tell a story and do it truthfully.
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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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