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I'm in my mind a lot. I live there.

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
Mind
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I think that people create the world that they live in. Your existence is very subjective, and you tell stories and organize the world outside of you into these stories to help you understand it.
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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 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 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 try to present something that is true so I don't further destroy the world with my contribution to it.
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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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And so not only do you have to make that work, you can't really start putting the thing together in any form because some of the shots are very short and obviously many of them take so long, you're waiting months and months and months before you can see if it's going to be working emotionally.
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I do throw out a lot of ideas, and I forget completely about them.
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I do have, at different times, a certain kind of self-consciousness in the world, an insecurity.
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I think if something resonates, even if it's surreal, it's because it is relatable and I think that that's a core issue for me.
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I feel like I want to keep moving toward idiosyncracy. Personal, personal, personal.
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As a writer, or as a filmmaker, you have to present yourself, and part of what yourself is is what you're interested in, or what you think is funny, or what you think is sad, or what you think is horrible.
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Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.
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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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I think everything I do is based on my experience in the world in one way or another.
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I'm trying to tell a story and do it truthfully.
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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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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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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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Do not simplify. Do not worry about failure. Failure is a badge of honour. It means you risked failure.
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