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Sand is overrated. It's just tiny little rocks.

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Charlie Kaufman
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: November 1
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Littles
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Overrated
Sand
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Rocks

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There are things that aren't represented in movies that are a big part of everyone's life. This is a movie about health and about the body.
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I'm not into extreme sports or something. I just live a quiet life.
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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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I think everything I do is based on my experience in the world in one way or another.
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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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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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You are what you love. Not what loves you.
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I think there are things that aren't represented in movies that are a big part of everyone's life. We romanticize everything about people in movies. One of the things I don't like in movies is that people feel alone with their bodily functions in the real world, as if people in the movies don't do these things.
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I really don't have any solutions and I don't like movies that do.
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I try to present something that is true so I don't further destroy the world with my contribution to it.
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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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Do not simplify. Do not worry about failure. Failure is a badge of honour. It means you risked failure.
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I can talk endlessly about characters, or why someone did this or that, and what that dynamic and interaction is. I really love it, and I think that actors really respond positively to the fact that I like to talk about that stuff, because I'm not sure that all directors do.
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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'm trying to tell a story and do it truthfully.
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I graduated from college in 1980.
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I want to do my own thing, and I'm trying to get closer to realizing that as a filmmaker.
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Directing was a big learning experience for me because I had to deal with every aspect of everything-all this constant decision-making, with people asking you questions at every moment, and you have to have answers for them all.
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I'm Jewish, and my family is Jewish. I was very interested in Woody Allen when I was growing up, but I don't think of myself as a Jewish writer. I'm more from suburbia, American suburbia. I'm more from the '70s than I am from Judaism.
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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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