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I try to make things interesting and thought-provoking.

Charlie Kaufman

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Charlie Kaufman
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: November 1
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Provoking
Interesting
Thought
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I'm not into extreme sports or something. I just live a quiet life.
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You and I share the same DNA. Is there anything more lonely than that?
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You spend most of your time as a director trying to move forward with the movie. It happens on a daily basis, if not more than once a day, that you are struggling with budgetary constraints. Whereas when you're writing, the limitation that you have is your imagination. So it's decidedly non-pragmatic.
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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 create situations that give people something to think about.
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So when I write characters and situations and relationships, I try to sort of utilize what I know about the world, limited as it is, and what I hear from my friends and see with my relatives.
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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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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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I like titles that are a little difficult, because it's kind of counterintuitive.
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I do have some theatrical background. I've written plays and seen plays and read plays. But I also read novels. One thing I don't read is screenplays.
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People ask me all the time, What are your influences? Are you trying to do Beckett? It's like, No, I'm trying to do me. Whatever that is. I don't know what that is, but that's the basis. I'm trying to be true and I'm trying to be honest.
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There is so much crap in the world, both in show and other businesses, that I try to be vulnerable myself, in the hopes that there is some truth I can get to, that makes people feel less alone in the world.
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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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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 feel like I want to keep moving toward idiosyncracy. Personal, personal, personal.
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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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I'm in my mind a lot. I live there.
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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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You are what you love. Not what loves you.
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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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