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Failure is a badge of honor. It means you risked failure. And if you don’t risk failure, you’re never going to do anything that’s different from what you’ve already done or what somebody else has done.

Charlie Kaufman

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Charlie Kaufman
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: November 1
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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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I think if something resonates, even if it's surreal, it's because it is relatable and I think that that's a core issue for me.
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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'm in my mind a lot. I live there.
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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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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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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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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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I do have, at different times, a certain kind of self-consciousness in the world, an insecurity.
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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 I've had pretty good experiences for the most part with the people who have directed my screenplays.
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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 want to do my own thing, and I'm trying to get closer to realizing that as a filmmaker.
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My time on the set is the least of my involvement. Most of my time is in pre-production and post-production.
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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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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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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.
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I tend to not only read reviews, but also every little stupid thing online. It's a very bad idea, and there's a lot of angry people in the world. And it's weird to absorb all that weirdness.
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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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