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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: 66
Born: 1958
Born: November 1
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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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If you create something that is asking for people to respond as they're going to respond, you have to allow them to respond as they're going to respond. Some of the people are going to be uninterested and some people are going to be mad for some reason, which is their business. That's just the way the world is.
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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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I'm not into extreme sports or something. I just live a quiet life.
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I do have some theatrical background. I've written plays and seen plays and read plays. But I also read novels. One thing I don't read is screenplays.
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I really don't have any solutions and I don't like movies that do.
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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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You're dealing with the body, and you're dealing with bodily functions. We romanticize everything about people in movies.
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I graduated from college in 1980.
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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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I'm trying to tell a story and do it truthfully.
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