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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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Do not simplify. Do not worry about failure. Failure is a badge of honour. It means you risked failure.
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Failure is a badge of honor. It means you risked failure. And if you don’t risk failure, you’re never going to do anything that’s different from what you’ve already done or what somebody else has done.
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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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Sand is overrated. It's just tiny little rocks.
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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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I do throw out a lot of ideas, and I forget completely about them.
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Writing is a journey into the unknown.
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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 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 really don't have any solutions and I don't like movies that do.
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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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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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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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Everything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is true.
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Every day of your life, you have information that enters your head, and that information informs your understanding of things, or shifts it, or changes it, or deepens it, or confuses you. Every day, every moment of every day - it's like this thing that happens.
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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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Yeah, once we decided to use that replacement animation, and the seams are a function of that animation, and other movies paint those out, we decided we wanted to keep the presence of the animation and the type of animation that it was rather than make it look polished. It created a kind of vulnerability, I think.
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I like titles that are a little difficult, because it's kind of counterintuitive.
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I want to create situations that give people something to think about.
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