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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.

Charlie Kaufman

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Charlie Kaufman
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: November 1
Film Director
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New York City
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I'm interested in trying to explore what I think is the truth at a given time in my life, and part of the process of being honest is - in my mind - talking about the idea that you're watching a movie.
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Everything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is true.
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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 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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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 actually think I'm probably more interested in structure than most people who write screenplays, because I think about it.
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I'm in my mind a lot. I live there.
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I do throw out a lot of ideas, and I forget completely about them.
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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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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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We try to organize the world, which isn't organized the way our brains want to organize it. We tell stories about the people in our lives, we project ideas onto them. We project relationships with people, we make our lives into stories. I don't think we can avoid doing that.
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I do have, at different times, a certain kind of self-consciousness in the world, an insecurity.
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So when I write characters and situations and relationships, I try to sort of utilize what I know about the world, limited as it is, and what I hear from my friends and see with my relatives.
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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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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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Before you start production, you have characters you have created without actors in mind, then all of a sudden you've got actors. They bring an enormous amount in creating these characters, and creating the dynamics between the characters that you've written.
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You are what you love. Not what loves you.
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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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When you approach middle age, lots of stuff happens. Your body is aging, you're watching people around you get sick, you're watching people die, your mortality becomes very present at that point in your life.
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