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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
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Charlie Kaufman
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: November 1
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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 actually think I'm probably more interested in structure than most people who write screenplays, because I think about it.
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There are nearly thirteen million people in the world. None of those people is an extra. They're all the leads of their own stories. They have to be given their due.
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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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Do not simplify. Do not worry about failure. Failure is a badge of honour. It means you risked failure.
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