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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.

Charlie Kaufman

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Charlie Kaufman
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: November 1
Film Director
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New York City
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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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I graduated from college in 1980.
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