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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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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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I feel like I want to keep moving toward idiosyncracy. Personal, personal, personal.
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The way I write is very much without kind of a goal. I have something I'm interested in and then I decide I'm going to explore it. I don't know where the characters are going to go, I don't know what the movie is going to do or what the screenplay is going to do. For me, that's the way to keep it alive.
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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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