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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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Do not simplify. Do not worry about failure. Failure is a badge of honour. It means you risked failure.
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The world needs you. It doesn't need you at a party having read a book about how to appear smart at parties - these books exist, and they're tempting - but resist falling into that trap. The world needs you at the party starting real conversations, saying, 'I don't know,' and being kind.
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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'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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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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I like titles that are a little difficult, because it's kind of counterintuitive.
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If I were doing somebody else's script or I adapted a book by Philip Roth, on set there could be a million different interpretations of the material and people could argue with me. Certainly on Synecdoche, New York we had discussions and arguments, but I felt like I had authority because I'm a writer.
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