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Do not simplify. Do not worry about failure. Failure is a badge of honour. It means you risked failure.

Charlie Kaufman

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Charlie Kaufman
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: November 1
Film Director
Film Producer
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New York City
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There is so much crap in the world, both in show and other businesses, that I try to be vulnerable myself, in the hopes that there is some truth I can get to, that makes people feel less alone in the world.
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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 generally I'm kind of interested in subjective experience, what goes on inside someone's head, that being all they really know of the world.
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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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Sand is overrated. It's just tiny little rocks.
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I will be dying and so will you, and so will everyone here. That's what I want to explore. We're all hurtling towards death, yet here we are for the moment, alive. Each of us knowing we're going to die, each of us secretly believing we won't.
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Every day of your life, you have information that enters your head, and that information informs your understanding of things, or shifts it, or changes it, or deepens it, or confuses you. Every day, every moment of every day - it's like this thing that happens.
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There really is only one ending to any story. Human life ends in death. Until then, it keeps going and gets complicated and there's loss. Everything involves loss every relationship ends 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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Everything I've written is personal - it's the only way I know how to write.
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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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People ask me all the time, What are your influences? Are you trying to do Beckett? It's like, No, I'm trying to do me. Whatever that is. I don't know what that is, but that's the basis. I'm trying to be true and I'm trying to be honest.
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I graduated from college in 1980.
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Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.
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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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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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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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Story ideas, but it's also musing on stuff that I'm thinking about. This leads me to this and this leads me to this. They're kind of random and haphazard. Often I can't find anything. Somehow, by doing that, even though I don't necessarily refer to them in a specific way, I have some sort of architecture in my head.
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