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Charlie Kaufman
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: November 1
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You and I share the same DNA. Is there anything more lonely than that?
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I think there are things that aren't represented in movies that are a big part of everyone's life. We romanticize everything about people in movies. One of the things I don't like in movies is that people feel alone with their bodily functions in the real world, as if people in the movies don't do these things.
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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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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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There really is only one ending to any story. Human life ends in death. Until then, it keeps going and gets complicated and there's loss. Everything involves loss every relationship ends in one way or another.
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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 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 try to present something that is true so I don't further destroy the world with my contribution to it.
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Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.
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I'm in my mind a lot. I live there.
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I feel like I want to keep moving toward idiosyncracy. Personal, personal, personal.
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I want to create situations that give people something to think about.
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We try to organize the world, which isn't organized the way our brains want to organize it. We tell stories about the people in our lives, we project ideas onto them. We project relationships with people, we make our lives into stories. I don't think we can avoid doing that.
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I like titles that are a little difficult, because it's kind of counterintuitive.
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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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I think everything I do is based on my experience in the world in one way or another.
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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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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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I'm not a celebrity. I'm intentionally and defiantly not a celebrity. I don't have any interest in it. I don't have any talent for it. I keep my personal life out of my public life as cleanly as I can.
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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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