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I'm old enough, by a long shot, to remember going to the library and spending days researching. If I was looking for a line from a poem or something else I needed, that would be the trip I would have to take.

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Charlie Kaufman
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: November 1
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I think I've had pretty good experiences for the most part with the people who have directed my screenplays.
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I try when I'm writing to leave enough space for people to have their own interpretation, and not to direct it toward one conclusion. Then the audience would not be reacting, because they are being preached to or lectured at. I don't have that much to say that I think people should listen to me.
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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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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 want to create situations that give people something to think about.
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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 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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Everything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is true.
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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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You are what you love. Not what loves you.
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I'm not working on anything. I was trying to write something new . . . I guess the goal for me now, at least at this point, is to try to direct again.
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I'm trying to tell a story and do it truthfully.
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Writing is a journey into the unknown.
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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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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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I like titles that are a little difficult, because it's kind of counterintuitive.
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We're all one thing, like cells in a body. 'Cept we can't see the body. The way fish can't see the ocean. And so we envy each other. Hurt each other. Hate each other. How silly is that? A heart cell hating a lung cell.
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I feel like I want to keep moving toward idiosyncracy. Personal, personal, personal.
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There are nearly thirteen million people in the world. None of those people is an extra. They're all the leads of their own stories. They have to be given their due.
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I try to make things interesting and thought-provoking.
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