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I'm not into extreme sports or something. I just live a quiet life.

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 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 try to make things interesting and thought-provoking.
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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 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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Sand is overrated. It's just tiny little rocks.
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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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If you create something that is asking for people to respond as they're going to respond, you have to allow them to respond as they're going to respond. Some of the people are going to be uninterested and some people are going to be mad for some reason, which is their business. That's just the way the world is.
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I want to create situations that give people something to think about.
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You're dealing with the body, and you're dealing with bodily functions. We romanticize everything about people in movies.
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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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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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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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I have a background in theater, so I have experience with actors. I like actors - I used to be one.
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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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