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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.

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
Generous
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I graduated from college in 1980.
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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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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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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 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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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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Everything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is true.
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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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I'm in my mind a lot. I live there.
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I do a lot of things intuitively. I'm not often consciously aware of what I'm doing. It's like in a dream: There's something going on that's powerful but you don't know exactly why.
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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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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 feel like I want to keep moving toward idiosyncracy. Personal, personal, personal.
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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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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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