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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.
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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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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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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I really don't have any solutions and I don't like movies that do.
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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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Everything I've written is personal - it's the only way I know how to write.
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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 feel like I want to keep moving toward idiosyncracy. Personal, personal, personal.
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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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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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Directing is a more pragmatic experience, where you have to deal with the restrictions of time and money that force you to make certain decisions you don't have to make when you're writing.
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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 often have a theme in mind when I'm starting. I know that I want everything to be in a world of, say, evolution, or guilt.
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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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When I'm writing a script, before I can write dialogue or anything, I have two or three hundred pages of notes, which takes me a year. So, it's not like what happens next. I've got things that I'm thinking about but I don't settle on them. And if I try to write dialogue before then, I can't. It's just garbage.
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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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Directing was a big learning experience for me because I had to deal with every aspect of everything-all this constant decision-making, with people asking you questions at every moment, and you have to have answers for them all.
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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 have a background in theater, so I have experience with actors. I like actors - I used to be one.
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You and I share the same DNA. Is there anything more lonely than that?
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